# All Questions

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### SVD of correlated matrix should be additive but doesn't appear to be

I'm just trying to replicate a claim made in the following paper, Finding Correlated Biclusters from Gene Expression Data, which is: Proposition 4. If $X_{IJ}=R_{I}C^{T}_{J}$. then we have: ...
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### Training a basic Markov Random Field for classifying pixels in an image

I am attempting to learn how to use Markov Random Fields to segment regions in an image. I do not understand some of the parameters in the MRF or why the expectation maximisation I perform fails to ...
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### Bound for Arithmetic Harmonic mean inequality for matrices?

NOTE: This question has originally been posted in MSE, but it did not generate any interest. It was first posted there, because the question itself is a pure matrix-algebra question. Nevertheless, ...
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### p-value adjustment for Local Moran's I statistic (LISA)

I'm working with some exploratory spatial analysis in R using spdep package. I came across an option to adjust p-values of local indicators of spatial association (LISA) calculated using ...
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### Analyze a football match: similar players with DBSCAN and similar trajectories with TRACLUS

I'm trying to analyze a dataset that originates from sensors located near players' shoes in a match (http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/index.php?goto=cfchallengedetails). I decided to look at ...
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### Luce choice axiom, question about conditional probability

I'm reading Luce (1959). Then I found this statement: When a person chooses among alternatives, very often their responses appear to be governed by probabilities that are conditioned on the ...
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### Unable to fit negative binomial regression in R (attempting to replicate published results)

Attempting to replicate the results from the recently published article, Aghion, Philippe, John Van Reenen, and Luigi Zingales. 2013. "Innovation and Institutional Ownership." American Economic ...
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### Identification of parameters problem

I always struggle to get the true essence of identification in econometrics. I know that we state that a parameter (say $\hat{\theta}$) can be identified if by simply looking at its (joint) ...
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### Can I use optimally scaled variables for a factor analysis to account for rotation? If I can then how?

I have discussed this issue several times in this site, but I am asking it again for a final justification from the experts of our community. I wanted to extract four factors (I should call dimensions ...
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### $ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$, Simulation over Forecasting period

I have time series data and I used an $ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$ as the model to fit the data. The $X_t$ is an indicator random variable that is either 0 (when I don’t see a rare event) or 1 (when I see the ...
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### Multiple imputation questions for multiple regression in SPSS

I am currently running a multiple regression model using imputed data and have a few questions. Background: Using SPSS 18. My data appears to be MAR. Listwise deletion of cases leaves me with only ...
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### How to analyze longitudinal count data: accounting for temporal autocorrelation in GLMM?

Hello statistical gurus and R programming wizards, I am interested in modeling animal captures as a function of environmental conditions and day of the year. As part of another study, I have counts ...
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### What data and statistics skills are currently in high demand and where are they in high demand?

I have a job doing data analysis in finance. My current job is such that I don't have much exposure to things happening in the rest of my industry or other industries. I have a fair amount of ...
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### Physical/pictoral interpretation of higher-order moments

I'm preparing a presentation about parallel statistics. I plan to illustrate the formulas for distributed computation of the mean and variance with examples involving center of gravity and moment of ...
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### How to use G Power 3 to calculate statistical power in mixed design ANOVA with unequal group sample sizes

In G power 3, ANOVA repeated measures within-between interaction: Only the total sample size is reported assuming equal sample size for the two groups. My questions are: How would it work if the ...
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### How can I assess GEE/logistic model fit when covariates have some missing data?

I have fit two generalized estimating equation (GEE) models to my data: 1) Model 1: Outcome is longitudinal Yes/No variable (A) (year 1,2,3,4,5) with longitudinal continuous predictor (B) for years ...
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### Marginal Likelihood from the Gibbs Output

I'm reproducing from scratch the results in Section 4.2.1 of Marginal Likelihood from the Gibbs Output Siddhartha Chib Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 90, No. 432. (Dec., ...