Mathematical statistician (the image is my grandfather in 1927, just returned to Tromsø after wintering at Jan Mayen)

For contact, my email:

<first name><My public seed> at gmail dot com

Below a list of some questions I have responded to, where I consider my response interesting:

how-does-saddlepoint-approximation-work

what is the intuition behind svd

goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or poisson

Estimating parameters for Binomial with both $n$ and $p$ unknown

what is the difference between finite and infinite variance

general sum of gamma distributions

why should we use t errors instead of normal errors

maximum likelihood estimation mle in layman terms

difference of two iid lognormal random variables

non transitivity of correlation correlations between gender and brain size

Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler divergence

Taleb and the black swan

Correlations between continuous and categorical nominal variables

Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well separated