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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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### Stability of cross-validation in Bayesian models

I'm fitting a Bayesian HLM in JAGS using k-fold cross-validation (k=5). I'd like to know whether estimates of parameter $\beta$ are stable across all folds. What's the best way to do this? One idea ...
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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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### 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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Suppose we have a multiple comparisons scenario like such as post hoc inference on pairwise statistics, or a multiple regression, where we are making a total of $m$ comparisons. Suppose also, that we ...
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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 ...
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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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### AIC/BIC: how many parameters does a permutation count for?

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, ...
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### Calculating prediction intervals when using cross validation

Are standard deviation estimates calculated via: $s_N = \sqrt{\frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \overline{x})^2}.$ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation#Sample_standard_deviation) for ...
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 ...