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PCA on Correlation or Covariance? — csgillespie 6,09422556
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Resources for learning R — htrahdis 10612
may 17 at 12:46
Fast linear regression robust to outliers — user603 7,44511641
may 16 at 10:55
Statistics Jokes — David B 351412
may 13 at 5:55
Pearson's or Spearman's correlation with non-normal data — Rob Hyndman 14k33884
may 4 at 1:55
F and t statistics in a regression — csgillespie 6,09422556
apr 18 at 20:16
How to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes in a feedforward neural network? — doug 1,695517
apr 18 at 7:30
What's the difference between principal components analysis and multidimensional scaling? — ttnphns 8,99011027
apr 17 at 16:33
What is the single most influential book every statistician should read? — Rob Hyndman 14k33884
apr 12 at 11:59
Assessing approximate distribution of data based on histogram — Glen_b 13.1k21442
apr 8 at 23:44
Famous statistician quotes — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
mar 30 at 16:04
Having a job in data-mining without a PhD — user765195 727212
mar 18 at 6:37
Multivariate multiple regression in R — caracal 5,7421023
mar 13 at 8:05
Why does the correlation coefficient between X and X-Y random variables tend to be 0.7 — ttnphns 8,99011027
mar 12 at 4:39
Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA? — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
mar 9 at 10:38
What is the lasso in regression analysis? — dcl 565314
mar 7 at 21:41
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
mar 7 at 8:40
Why does the correlation coefficient between X and X-Y random variables tend to be 0.7 — Dilip Sarwate 4,9211921
feb 28 at 21:54
Famous statistician quotes — robin girard 3,64411638
feb 26 at 9:50
What intuitive explanation is there for the central limit theorem? — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
feb 20 at 7:49
Difference between logit and probit models — Elvis 3,404518
feb 15 at 14:04
Does causation imply correlation? — StasK 11.4k1447
feb 15 at 14:04
Does causation imply correlation? — Artem Kaznatcheev 825216
feb 3 at 15:28
Famous statistician quotes — Neil McGuigan 2,26712141
jan 27 at 10:52
How to summarize data by group in R? — mpiktas 13.9k31860
jan 22 at 19:18
What are common statistical sins? — ogrisel 1,47448
jan 22 at 18:53
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues — Freya Harrison 95011120
jan 15 at 22:37
What is intuition behind beta distribution? — David Robinson 1,133413
jan 15 at 18:22
Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other? — Rob Hyndman 14k33884
jan 14 at 13:27
How to tell if data is “clustered” enough for clustering algorithms to produce meaningful results? — chl♦ 27.2k363159
jan 10 at 4:12
Famous statistician quotes — ymihere 16626
jan 8 at 20:45
R vs SAS, why is SAS prefered by private companies? — Jonathan Lisic 48337
jan 3 at 22:09
Does Julia have any hope of sticking in the statistical community? — Harlan 442414
jan 3 at 20:04
Free statistical textbooks — Stephen Turner 1,368622
jan 3 at 14:44
Bayesian and frequentist reasoning in plain English — Dikran Marsupial 12k1646
dec 28 at 11:13
Having a job in data-mining without a PhD — EMS 1,273314
dec 26 at 0:11
Good GUI for R suitable for a beginner wanting to learn programming in R? — G. Jay Kerns 3,1551324
dec 20 at 8:18
Most interesting statistical paradoxes — Charlie 6,009627
dec 16 at 3:32
What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon? — Shane 6,16263474
dec 15 at 3:57
Can someone explain Gibbs sampling in very simple words? — charles.y.zheng 2,425720
dec 14 at 12:36
What are the differences between Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis — Jeromy Anglim 17.1k442108
dec 9 at 18:42
A Probability distribution value exceeding 1 is OK? — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
dec 2 at 11:22
How to choose nlme or lme4 R library for mixed effects models? — chl♦ 27.2k363159
nov 30 at 7:17
When is it ok to remove the intercept in lm()? — Dmitrij Celov 3,2861919
nov 30 at 5:27
What are common statistical sins? — robin girard 3,64411638
nov 18 at 22:06
What are the 'big problems' in statistics? — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
nov 17 at 13:12
What are the cons of Bayesian analysis? — EpiGrad 8,37012358
nov 14 at 4:59
How can a regression be significant yet all predictors be non-significant? — whuber♦ 57.2k388190
nov 11 at 15:58
Do we have a problem of “pity upvotes”? — Greg Snow 15.4k1333
nov 5 at 8:20
Model for predicting number of Youtube views of Gangnam Style — gui11aume 5,737733
oct 21 at 2:38
What are common statistical sins? — Neil McGuigan 2,26712141
oct 21 at 0:28
Is normality testing 'essentially useless'? — Harvey Motulsky 2,825833
oct 20 at 0:13
Given the power of computers these days, is there ever a reason to do a Chi-squared test rather than Fisher's exact test? — suncoolsu 3,748727
oct 12 at 19:57
Famous statistician quotes — Jeromy Anglim 17.1k442108
oct 10 at 18:42
Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean? — Douglas Zare 5,1701722
oct 8 at 14:35
Python as a statistics workbench — csgillespie 6,09422556
oct 7 at 14:29
Given the power of computers these days, is there ever a reason to do a Chi-squared test rather than Fisher's exact test? — Frank Harrell 8,0241334
oct 5 at 20:24
How exactly does one “control for other variables”? — EpiGrad 8,37012358
oct 5 at 18:44
The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning? — dsimcha 1,447818
oct 2 at 20:08
Bayesians: slaves of the likelihood function? — Chris Sims 279113
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