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It's not just papers. I tried to learn probabilities theory & statistics, deeper than little knowledge I kept from the uni. For instance, wanted to understand h
by culebron21 3y ago
It's not just papers. I tried to learn probabilities theory & statistics, deeper than little knowledge I kept from the uni. For instance, wanted to understand how you solve problems like samples in quality control: if in a sample of N items, m are bad, what's the chance X% are bad in production?
Unfortunately, there are either introductory materials (toss a coin -- 50% chance faces) or some robot language. Or schizophrenic: like starting from the middle of a speech.
- golol 3y agoI feel like you must be a using a wrong approach to searching for mathematics. In your case I would search for a script or book with title "Introduction to probabilify theory" or "Introduction to mathematical statistics". Then you skim through it to see if you can find an analysis of your problem. If not, you can hopefully find out what the right keywords are to then find a more advanced script or book for the specific subfield your problem needs.
- culebron21 3y agoThat's what I tried to avoid in the first place :)
- KeplerBoy 3y agoBut that's the entry point. Well written textbooks, which discuss the right problem are invaluable. If you head straight to google scholar, you're going to have a bad time.
- constantcrying 3y agoSo you tried to avoid an instructive text which is set up to allow readers to learn about the details of the subject starting from the ground up? And you are complaining that you can't find a resource which does exactly that?
- culebron21 3y agoI don't need ground up. I've even passed the exams on prob.theory and statistics. I need particular parts of it, but not in a cryptic form. I've had read enough of textbooks in the uni to see they're just as cryptic as research papers.
- constantcrying 3y agoYou can skip chapters you already understand. I don't know what textbooks you are reading, but almost every single one I have read tried very hard to present the content in a matter which focuses on understanding, unlike papers which focus on pure information. I am afraid if you find either cryptic you have a serious lack in the prerequisite knowledge and that is what you need to focus on if you want to understand the subject. From first hand experience I can tell you that I have passed exams on a lot of things I have very little knowledge of right now. Textbooks are essentially the only way to reliable self study academic materials.
- constantcrying 3y agoThe solution is to read textbooks. Good textbooks on these subjects certainly do exist and you just need to find and read them.
- ykonstant 3y agoFeller's Probability volume 1 is always a good remedy for wounded probabilists :) Disregard the complaints that it is old-fashioned and dive in.
- _dain_ 3y agoI find that coding up a Monte Carlo simulation is a tremendous help when I have to deal with some probability/statistics problem. If I can play with the parameters and immediately see how the scatterplot changes, I get a much stronger intuition than I could from formal reasoning.