Probability and Statistics

Overview

This hub tracks uncertainty, estimation, probabilistic modeling, inference, calibration, hypothesis testing, learning curves, and statistical reasoning across learning, science, and verification.

Core Questions

  • How should uncertainty, evidence, and estimation be represented and updated?
  • Which probabilistic assumptions or statistical claims are essential versus incidental in a paper?
  • How do statistical-learning curves change with sample size, model complexity, and saturation assumptions?
  • Where do probabilistic tools recur across learning, verification, causality, robotics, and decision-making?
  • When can probability questions be reduced to exact finite counts?
  • Which causal claims depend on statistical association, structural mechanisms, or explicit temporal update equations?
  • When do finite-sample confidence bounds support conservative safety certification rather than only estimation?
  • When do iterative probability estimates need certified upper/lower bounds before they can control a learned system?
  • Which causal estimands remain identifiable under SUTVA, no-unmeasured-confounding, and positivity assumptions?
  • When can sequential Monte Carlo turn intractable counterfactual conditioning into asymptotically valid simulation?

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Key Concepts