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How to write a function to generate a sequence of points in R?
This is the PDF that I am dealing with:
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Why would predicted values be normally-distributed when the actual values are uniform?
I'm building a supervised learning model where the target variable is a uniformly-distributed continuous value ranging from 0-1 (originally a rank value from 1-38000, then scaled down to 0-1). The 20 ...
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Uniform distribution & generation of extreme values in R
I'd like to generate a new point which should be uniformly distributed on the interval [a, b) (i.e. including the left extreme value - a and exluding the right extreme value - b). The ...
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How to use ppoints to generate points within 0 and 0.05 for qq plotting in R?
I ran Tassel3 and I filtered results with p-value
not more than 0.05. This way, it is ok to draw a Manhattan plot. However, for
a QQ-plot there is a problem.
Say I have 40 thousands SNPs, after ...
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Kolmogorv Smirnov Test in R
I want to proof the "Relative Age Effect" of a football team. I have a list of birth dates of the team members (about 20 numbers between 1 and 365, the day of the year).
I now want to use the KS-Test ...
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Generating random samples from a custom distribution
I am trying to generate random samples from a custom pdf using R. My pdf is:
$$f_{X}(x) = \frac{3}{2} (1-x^2), 0 \le x \le 1$$
I generated uniform samples and then tried to transform it to my custom ...
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Are there default functions for discrete uniform distributions in R?
Most standard distributions in R have a family of commands - pdf/pmf, cdf/cmf, quantile, random deviates (for example- dnorm, pnorm, qnorm, rnorm).
I know it's easy enough to make use of some ...
