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The distribution of the scalar product of multivariate complex normal vectors
Assume two independent random complex vectors (with real and imaginary parts):
$$
\vec{\dot{Z}}=(\dot{z}_1,\dot{z}_2,\ldots,\dot{z}_n)~~~~~~~~~~ \begin{cases} \Re(\dot{z}_i)&=x_i \\ ...
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Finding latent variables in 7 dichotomous variables
I have read other posts on conducting Factor analysis (FA) with dichotomous variables and although it appears clear that FA done in the default way is not appropriate, I am still unclear about a few ...
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Smoothing 2D data
The data consist of optical spectra (light intensity against frequency) recorded at varying times. The points were acquired on a regular grid in x (time) , y (frequency). In order to analyse the time ...
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How do you create a multivariate distribution with both continuous and discrete data?
I understand how to create a multivariate normal distribution to handle multiple sources of continuous data, and I understand how to create a multivariate categorical distribution to handle the ...
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Introductory book for multivariate statistics
I am looking for an introductory book that helps me build some skills in working with multivariate distributions.
For example I want to be able to work with multivariate normal easily, something ...
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Math behind multivariate testing for website optimization
I am looking for theoretical resources (books, tutorials, etc.) to learn about making sound statistical inferences given (plenty of) multivariate website conversion data.
I'm after the math involved, ...
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What is a good source to learn about multidimensional scaling?
I don't have much experience with statistics (my education included 8 credits of pure statistics, another 8 of related subjects). I mostly learned about distributions and significance tests for ...
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Books with good coverage on joint distributions, multivariate statistics, etc?
I searched on internet for books on statistics (particularly 4shared.com :P) and I found that mostly all the books do not cover multivariate statistics in detail. Are there any good books which cover ...
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Book recommendations for multivariate analysis
I'm interested in getting some books about multivariate analysis, and need your recommendations. Free books are always welcome, but if you know about some great non-free MVA book, please, state it.
