Why isn't absolute deviation used
8860
Why square the difference instead of taking the absolute value in standard deviation?
4018
How to solve least absolute deviation by simplex method?
31272
Why does the continuity correction (say, the normal approximation to the binomial distribution) work?
44332
Explaining different Standard Deviation results from same data in ArcGIS Desktop and MS Excel?
98422
why do we use 'non-increasing' instead of decreasing?
10379
Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric?
81291
Why are ActualWidth and ActualHeight 0.0 in this case?
98770
Significant figures vs. absolute error
27796
inequality of absolute value problem
43277
Confused by (apparent) inconsistent precision
70260
Reason for not shrinking the bias (intercept) term in regression
58249
Why do we use a Least Squares fit?
16816
Why doesn't the example compile, aka how does (co-, contra-, and in-) variance work?
55473
Why do we still use points as a measurement of type size?
30128
When are confidence intervals useful?
15173
Why use vectors to describe velocity/force/etc instead of treating magnitude and direction as separate values?
131263
Why does the golden ratio work? Or does it?