<p>Mathematical statistician (the image is my grandfather in 1927, just returned to Tromsø after wintering at Jan Mayen)</p>
<p>For contact, my email:</p>
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<pre><code>&lt;first name&gt;&lt;My public seed&gt; at gmail dot com
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<p>Below a list of some questions I have responded to, where I consider my response  interesting:</p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/191492/how-does-saddlepoint-approximation-work/191781#191781">how-does-saddlepoint-approximation-work</a></p>
<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/177102/what-is-the-intuition-behind-svd/179042#179042">what is the intuition behind svd</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/142338/goodness-of-fit-and-which-model-to-choose-linear-regression-or-poisson/142353#142353">goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or poisson</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/123367/estimating-parameters-for-a-binomial/123748#123748">Estimating parameters for Binomial with both <span class="math-container">$n$</span> and <span class="math-container">$p$</span> unknown</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/94402/what-is-the-difference-between-finite-and-infinite-variance/100161#100161">what is the difference between finite and infinite variance</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/72479/general-sum-of-gamma-distributions/137318#137318">general sum of gamma distributions</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/120776/why-should-we-use-t-errors-instead-of-normal-errors/120787#120787">why should we use t errors instead of normal errors</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/112451/maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-in-layman-terms/112480#112480">maximum likelihood estimation mle in layman terms</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/152850/difference-of-two-i-i-d-lognormal-random-variables/176374#176374">difference of two iid lognormal random variables</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/131065/non-transitivity-of-correlation-correlations-between-gender-and-brain-size-and/131069#131069">non transitivity of correlation correlations between gender and brain size</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/188903/intuition-on-the-kullback-leibler-kl-divergence/189758#189758">Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler divergence</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/35956/taleb-and-the-black-swan/36048#36048">Taleb and the black swan</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/102778/correlations-between-continuous-and-categorical-nominal-variables/102800#102800">Correlations between continuous and categorical nominal variables</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/254124/why-does-logistic-regression-become-unstable-when-classes-are-well-separated/254205#254205">Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well separated</a></p>

kjetil b halvorsen