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Can we use cross-validation to measure how well a distribution fits sample data?
Let's say I have a data set $X = [1,2,3,4,5]$. And I want to measure how close it is to a Gaussian distribution. Is there a way to use cross-validation to do this?
For example, if I do ...
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Trying to run statistical tests in R but struggling as I am new to the language
Good Day, I believe this issue is more of a lack of understand of R (as I have never used it till recently) than anything else. What I am looking for is references, or documents to help me solve my ...
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Who invented k-fold cross-validation?
I am looking for a reference to the paper where k-fold cross-validation was introduced (rather than just a good academic reference for the subject). Perhaps it is too far back in the mists of time to ...
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Cross-validation vs empirical Bayes for estimating hyperparameters
Given a hierarchical model $p(x|\phi,\theta)$, I want a two stage process to fit the model. First, fix a handful of hyperparameters $\theta$, and then do Bayesian inference on the rest of the ...
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Good literature about cross validation
Does anybody know a good book/webpage to start learning the techniques of cross validation?
