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>What happens when the response variable is discrete?
Discrete how? Dichotomous: logistic regression, counts: Poisson regression, categorical: classification/clustering.
>This Anon knows the answer.
Congratulations faggot. You're not the only statistician on this board.
>the material is hard
That depends on the department's goal. Most are just plug and chug MS programs that use Minitab, unfortunately. Theory is not heavily emphasized at the MS level any more.
>In industry R/Python is 20/80 overall but varies by industry. SAS basically pharma.
SAS is also used at big companies and government with institutional inertia. Matlab still has some pretty cool uses. Agree about the Stata/SPSS though.

but later finds out that he cannot prove the obvious result, so he looks high-and-low for the original paper that proved the obvious result. He then discovers that he was the original author of the paper that proved the result.

>One day Shizuo Kakutani was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvious. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn’t obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain?

>After several moments’ thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

>After class, Kakutani, went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written “Exercise for the reader”.

>The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani.

>From Mathematical Apocrypha by Steven Krantz.

One day Shizuo Kakutani was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvious. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn't obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain?

After several moments' thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

After class, Kakutani, went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written, 'Exercise for the reader.'

The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani.