iβve been trying to understand this formula since a very long time. If anyone would be kind enough to send me a solved example or point me to one i would be eternally grateful.
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> One day In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics class and found two problems written on the board.
> Six weeks later, Dantzig's statistic professor notified him that he had prepared one of his two "Homework" proofs for publication, and Dantzig was given co-author credit on another paper several years later when another mathematician independently worked out the same solution to the second problem.
> To make a long story short, the problems on the blackboard that I had solved thinking they were homework were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics.
> Someone had just pointed out to him that the main result in his paper was the same as the second "Homework" problem solved in my thesis.
> The moral of his sermon was this: If I had known that the problem were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.
> Legend-like forms of the tale such as the one quoted at the head of this page: Schuller converted the mistaken homework assignment into a "Final exam" with ten problems, claimed that "Even Einstein was unable to unlock the secrets" of the two extra problems, and erroneously stated that Dantzig's professor was so impressed that he "Gave Dantzig a job as his assistant, and Dantzig has been at Stanford ever since."
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> One day In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics class and found two problems written on the board.
> Six weeks later, Dantzig's statistic professor notified him that he had prepared one of his two "Homework" proofs for publication, and Dantzig was given co-author credit on another paper several years later when another mathematician independently worked out the same solution to the second problem.
> To make a long story short, the problems on the blackboard that I had solved thinking they were homework were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics.
> Someone had just pointed out to him that the main result in his paper was the same as the second "Homework" problem solved in my thesis.
> The moral of his sermon was this: If I had known that the problem were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.
> Legend-like forms of the tale such as the one quoted at the head of this page: Schuller converted the mistaken homework assignment into a "Final exam" with ten problems, claimed that "Even Einstein was unable to unlock the secrets" of the two extra problems, and erroneously stated that Dantzig's professor was so impressed that he "Gave Dantzig a job as his assistant, and Dantzig has been at Stanford ever since."
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