4 ms·
reminds me of a comment a classmate used to make (we were taking a course together on measure theory, taught in the statistics dept. which was separate from our
by bitdiddle 16y ago
reminds me of a comment a classmate used to make (we were taking a course together on measure theory, taught in the statistics dept. which was separate from our math dept.); "Inside every hard statistics problem is a trivial analysis problem struggling to get out"
- eru 16y agoOur teaching assistent for probability theory gave us real hard nuts to crack. And he was strict about the rigour of our answer--we often had to ground our proofs in measure theory to get past his radar. And he allowed no handwaiving. The demands were a bit annoying at the time, but I credit him with getting a understanding of probability theory. I wish every course would have been like this.