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by joshdavham 557 days ago
This was something that really lacked in my statistics degree. We were always learning different distributions, proofs and estimation methods but very rarely applied them to actual problems. I feel like you can kinda get away with this type of thing in math more, but in statistics, it makes things super hard to learn.
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I kinda wish you could just take a course on a specific distribution. Like, here's the Poisson class where you learn all of its interesting properties and apply it to e.g. queuing problems.
I took a lot of stats and probability courses in university, but never developed any intuition related to it. This would have been very helpful to me back then and now even.