Boulevard of Broken Links

5:21 PM

Finding and fixing broken links in Math.SE posts is my never-ending quest! Martin Sleziak recently pointed out domains with dead links, but I don't know how much of these problems are caused by domain reorganization and how much by idiosyncratic failures of page/site maintenance. I'll prepare a SEDE query weekly to post here.

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hardmath

9:29 PM

A: Is there an introduction to probability and statistics that balances frequentist and bayesian views?

I would recommend the following 16-page article from 36 years ago, which is easily accessible to any upper-level undergraduate: "Controversies in the Foundations of Statistics", Bradley Efron, The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 85, 1978, pp. 231-246. This won an MAA Writing Award. In my in...

This is an interesting example from a policy standpoint. The broken links are pointed out, but not edited in, by the OP. If I were the OP, I go ahead make the changes, but since the OP chose not to ... ???

A: Importance of Poincaré recurrence theorem? Any example?

There is a whole field of research focused on the consequences of Poincare recurrence theorem. The link below provides one of the first articles, critical theory at the beginning of this http://www.springerlink.com/content/r415482r0112g418/ this article is really interesting results, and worth...