# 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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### Paper on performing hypothesis tests based on outcome of another test

It is well known that it is problematic to choose a statistical test based on the outcome of another statistical test, as the p-values are difficult to impossible to interpret (e.g. Choosing a ...
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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 / ...
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### Standard errors from flexsurvreg

I'm using the flexsurv package (in R) to fit an exponential distribution to the veteran ...
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### What does the anova() command do with a lmer model object?

Hopefully this is a question that someone here can answer for me on the nature of decomposing sums of squares from a mixed-effects model fit with lmer (from the ...