# 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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### Random forests for multivariate regression

I have a multi-output regression problem with $d_x$ input features and $d_y$ outputs. The outputs have a complex, non-linear correlation structure. I'd like to use random forests to do the ...
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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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### Why does the scikit-learn bootstrap function resample the test set?

When using bootstrapping for model evaluation, I always thought the out-of-bag samples were directly used as a test set. However, this appears not to be the case for the scikit-learn bootstrap ...
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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 ...
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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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### Using percentiles as predictors - good idea?

I am thinking about a problem which is to predict log(spend) of a customer using linear regression. I am considering what features to use as input and wondering if it would be OK to use the ...
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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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### Unique (?) idea for forecasting sales

I'm working on developing a model to predict total sales of a product. I have about a year and a half of bookings data, so I could do a standard time series analysis. However, I also have a lot of ...
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### Generalised least squares: from regression coefficients to correlation coefficients?

For least squares with one predictor: $y = \beta x + \epsilon$ If $x$ and $y$ are standardised prior to fitting (i.e. $\sim N(0,1)$), then: $\beta$ is the same as the Pearson correlation ...
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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 these data be aggregated into a proportion for a binomial glm?

We asked 60 people to list as many restaurant franchises in Atlanta as they could. The overall list included over 70 restaurants, but we eliminated those that were mentioned by fewer than 10% of the ...
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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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### 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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### Bayesian, MDL or ML interpretation of cross-validation?

Is there any known Bayesian, ML or MDL interpretation of cross-validation? Can I interpret cross validation as performing the right update on a specifically crafted prior?
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### How can we bound the probability that a random variable is maximal?

Suppose we have $N$ independent random variables $X_1$, $\ldots$, $X_n$ with finite means $\mu_1 \leq \ldots \leq \mu_N$ and variances $\sigma_1^2$, $\ldots$, $\sigma_N^2$. I am looking for ...
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### Distribution of inverse Wishart to a power?

In a related question, I had asked about the norm induced by an inverse Wishart matrix. I am interested in generalizing that result somewhat. Let $A\sim\mathcal{W}_p\left(I,n\right)$, a Wishart matrix ...
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### Estimation and functional space

In the first chapter of the book Algebraic Geometry and Statistical Learning Theory which talks about the convergence of estimations in different functional space, it mentions that the Bayesian ...
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### Link between variance and pairwise distances within a variable

Please, prove that if we have two variables (equal sample size) $X$ and $Y$ and the variance in $X$ is greater than in $Y$, then the sum of squared differences (i.e., squared euclidean distances) ...
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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 ...
Suppose $X\sim InvWishart(\nu, \Sigma_0)$. I'm interested in the marginal distribution of the diagonal elements $diag(X) = (x_{11}, \dots, x_{pp})$. There are a few simple results on the distribution ...