# 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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### Assessments of “Approximately Normal” for t-tests

I am testing equality of means using Welch's t-test. The underlying distribution is far from normal (more skewed than the example in a related discussion here). I can obtain more data but would like ...
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### Link Anomaly Detection in Temporal Network

I came across this paper that uses link anomaly detection to predict trending topics, and I found it incredibly intriguing: The paper is "Discovering Emerging Topics in Social Streams via Link Anomaly ...
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### Can cross-validation be helpful if we are interested only in modeling, not in forecasting?

Can cross-validation be helpful if we are interested only in modeling (i.e. estimating parameters), not in forecasting? I see how cross-validation is extremely useful if your goal is to make good ...
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### State of art streaming learning

I have been working with large data sets lately and found a lot of papers of streaming methods. To name a few: Follow-the-Regularized-Leader and Mirror Descent: Equivalence Theorems and L1 ...
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### Tail of the inverse cdf

I am almost sure I have already seen the following result in statistics but I can't remember where. If $X$ is a positive random variable and $E(X)<\infty$ then $\epsilon F^{-1}(1-\epsilon) \to 0$ ...
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### ANOVA: testing assumption of normality for many groups with few samples per group

Assume the following situation: we have a large number (e.g. 20) with small group sized (e.g. n = 3). I noticed that if I generate values from the uniform distribution, the residuals will look ...
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### Blind source separation of convex mixture?

Suppose I have $n$ independent sources, $X_1, X_2, ..., X_n$ and I observe $m$ convex mixtures: \begin{align} Y_1 &= a_{11}X_1 + a_{12}X_2 + \cdots + a_{1n}X_n\\ ...&\\ Y_m &= a_{m1}X_1 + ...
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### Convolutional neural networks: Aren't the central neurons over-represented in the output?

[This question was also posed at stack overflow] The question in short I'm studying convolutional neural networks, and I believe that these networks do not treat every input neuron ...
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### Understanding Singular Value Decomposition in the context of LSI

My question is generally on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and particularly on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). Say, I have $A_{word \times document}$ that contains frequencies of 5 words for ...