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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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### When is binomial distribution function above/below its limiting Poisson distribution function?

Let $B(n,p,r)$ denote the binomial distribution function (DF) with parameters $n \in \mathbb N$ and $p \in (0,1)$ evaluated at $r \in \{0,1,\ldots,n\}$: B(n,p,r) = \sum_{i=0}^r ...
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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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### 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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### How the Pearson's Chi Squared Test works

Following a recent down vote I have been trying to check my understanding of the Pearson Chi Squared test. I usually use the chi squared statistic (or reduced chi squared statistic) for fitting or ...
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### Inverting the Fourier Transform for a Fisher distribution

The characteristic function of Fisher $\mathcal{F}(1,\alpha)$ distribution is: C(t)=\frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{\alpha +1}{2}\right) U\left(\frac{1}{2},1-\frac{\alpha }{2},-i t \alpha \right)}{\Gamma ...
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### Phylogenetic dependent variables: ANOVA?

I understand deriving a covariance matrix from phylogenetic data to make $cov(X,Y) = 0$ for two variables you're making a regression on. But what happens if you have one continuous variable, that ...
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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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### Testing certain contrasts: Is this provably a hard problem, or not?

I posted this to mathoverflow and no one's answering: Scheffé's method for identifying statistically significant contrasts is widely known. A contrast among the means $\mu_i$, $i=1,\ldots,r$ of $r$ ...
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### Tail bounds on Euclidean norm for uniform distribution on $\{-n,-(n-1),…,n-1,n\}^d$

What are known upper bounds on how often the Euclidean norm of a uniformly chosen element of $\:\{-n,~-(n-1),~...,~n-1,~n\}^d\:$ will be larger than a given threshold? I'm mainly interested in bounds ...
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### Why would one use `random' confidence or credible intervals?

I was reading a paper recently that incorporated randomness in its confidence and credible intervals, and I was wondering if this is standard (and, if so, why it is a reasonable thing to do). To set ...
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### Generalized additive models — who does research on them besides Simon Wood?

I use GAMs more and more. When I go to provide references for their various components (smoothing parameter selection, various spline bases, p-values of smooth terms), they are all from one ...
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### Test if people drop out or decrease bets after repeated losses

I have data on a series of winning and losing bets over 5 rounds of betting with attrition after each round. I am using a decision tree like the following to display the data. The nodes towards ...
Let's say I have a model selection problem and I am trying to use AIC or BIC to evaluate the models. This is straightforward for models that have some number $k$ of real-valued parameters. However, ...
### $ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$, 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 ...