# 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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### Can the Mantel test be extended to asymmetric matrices?

The Mantel test is usually applied to symmetric distance/difference matrices. As far as I understand, an assumption of the test is that the measure used to define differences must be at least a ...
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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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### Inference on fixed effects in a mixed effects model

I have correlated data and am using a logistic regression mixed effects model to estimate the individual level (conditional) effect for a predictor of interest. I know that for standard marginal ...
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### Multivariant time series in R. How to find lagged correlation and build model for forecasting

I'm new in the page and pretty new in statistics and R. I'm working on a project for college with the objective of finding the correlation between rain and water flow level in rivers. Once the ...
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### What does $(X'X)^{-1}$ mean?

In a regression what is the matrix $(X'X)^{-1}$? what do its interior elements represent? Can anyone tell me which values in a stata regression are represented by $(X'X)^{-1}$?
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### Instrumental variables and mixed/multilevel models

I want to estimate a growth model to model the growth trajectories of individuals $j$ over multiple time points $t$ by applying a standard mixed/mutilevel model (also known as random coefficient ...
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### Why is using cross-sectional data to infer / predict longitudinal changes a Bad Thing?

I'm looking for a paper which I hope exists, but don't know if it does. It could be a set of case studies, and / or an argument from probability theory, about why using cross-sectional data to infer / ...