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Their business models are increasingly converging with both generative revenue through seller fees, subscriptions, and advertising. Amazon is ahead in most of these areas and also …

There are two types of BNPL loans: interest free and short-term interest-bearing accounts. In theory BNPL has a couple interesting advantages. First you're underwriting each indivi…

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This ignores the risk of spreading the virus to other populations.

One point neglected in discussions is the effect of spreading it to other territories that are not adopting a similar strategy. The majority of cases in the English-speaking Caribb…

You're grossly missing the point. If your kid steals money from your wallet, you catch them and punish them. That does not make what they did right just because they were punished …

It does, just look under paragraph.

When I was taking a class in Statistical Inference, we used a combination of Statistical Inference (Casella and Berger), Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Hogg and Craig) an…

When I was taking a class in Statistical Inference, we used a combination of Statistical Inference (Casella and Berger), Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Hogg and Craig) an…

To add to your second point, Andrew Gelman had some blog posts earlier this year detailing the challenges of doing online surveys, where he used simple questions that respondents "…

Not sure about that, just checked a link from a book that I had downloaded previously (this morning) and the download option was no longer there.

I don't buy the idea that the authors all still want a "cut" so to speak, given that many authors (at least in statistics) make copies freely available on their websites. I know Sh…

Seems to have gone dead. Maybe it was a bug at Springer or a brief promotion.

Yeah, most of the books I attempted to download were restricted.

This reminds me of the argument from Chasing Stars by Groysberg. It is very difficult to separate an individual's performance from that of their environment. A lot of factors come …

Puyol was by no means an average player and neither is Pique. These are players who were/are considered to be among the top five center backs in the world at their peak. Isn't that…

I find the conclusions made by this paper to be dubious. Perhaps the reporting is weak and did not properly delve into the methodology used by the authors of the paper to draw thei…

I keep hearing/seeing statements like this when that is not the case. Models are inherently simplifications of the real world. I don't think the problem was with the math or anybod…