Mahdi Nouraie
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Mahdi Nouraie
@mahdisnouraie.bsky.social
Statistics, Macquarie University, Australia
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Descartes on the Lost Simplicity of Mathematics:
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August 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
A Cautionary Note on the Central Limit Theorem:
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August 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
You are warmly invited to read my short article titled "Let's Retire 'A-Priori'":
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August 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
You are warmly invited to read my short article titled "The Misnomer of the ‘Normal’ Distribution: Origins and a Case for Renaming":
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July 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
You are warmly invited to read my short article titled "White Crows, Black Swans, and the Trouble with Inductive Logic":
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July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My own impression... is that the mathematical results have outrun their interpretation and that some simple explanation of the force and meaning of the celebrated integral... will one day be found... which will at once render useless all the works hitherto written.

-Augustus de Morgan
June 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
You are warmly invited to read our new preprint.
Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Mahdi Nouraie, Connor Smith, Samuel Muller
Stability Selection via Variable Decorrelation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20864
May 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems; great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

-Stefan Banach
May 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
An apparent case of Bernoulli’s fallacy (also known as the prosecutor’s fallacy) has surfaced in Australia after 20 years—uncovered not by statisticians, but through advances in genomics, echoing the tragedy of Sally Clark:
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
@aubreyclayton.bsky.social
“Science uncovered the truth of why my children died, and set me free”
After twenty years in jail, convicted of killing her four children, Kathleen Folbigg is sharing her experience of being falsely accused alongside the team of scientists and lawyers who used advances i...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I am happy to share that my review of "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" by @aubreyclayton.bsky.social has just been published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. You are warmly invited to read:
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science. By Aubrey Clayton, New York, Columbia University Press, 1st ed., 2021. 368 pages. AU$ 57.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 10:0231199945.
Click on the article title to read more.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
You are warmly invited to read my brief review of "Understanding Uncertainty" by Dennis V. Lindley:

Link: mahdinouraie.quarto.pub/blog/posts/U...
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April 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
An inspiring documentary about the brilliant mathematician and shining star of the mathematical world, Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani:
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Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (2020) ⭐ 8.5 | Documentary, Biography
1h
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March 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM