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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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### 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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### Gaussian Ratio Distribution: Derivatives wrt underlying $\mu$'s and $\sigma^2$s

I'm working with two independent normal distributions $X$ and $Y$, with means $\mu_x$ and $\mu_y$ and variances $\sigma^2_x$ and $\sigma^2_y$. I'm interested in the distribution of their ratio ...
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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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### Does Stein's Paradox still hold when using the $l_1$ norm instead of the $l_2$ norm?

Stein's Paradox shows that when three or more parameters are estimated simultaneously, there exist combined estimators more accurate on average (that is, having lower expected mean squared error) than ...
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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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### 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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### 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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### Rare event logistic regression bias: how to simulate the underestimated p's with a minimal example?

CrossValidated has several questions on when and how to apply the rare event bias correction by King and Zeng (2001). I am looking for something different: a minimal simulation-based demonstration ...
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### Can the Burnham-Anderson book on multimodel inference be recommended?

As motivated by the recent change of the default model selection statistic in the R's forecast package from AIC to AICc, I am curious whether the latter is indeed applicable wherever the former is. ...
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### $ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$, 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 ...
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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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### Translating machine learning problem into regression framework

Suppose I have a panel of explanatory variables $X_{it}$, for $i = 1 ... N$, $t = 1 ... T$, as well as a vector of binary outcome dependent variables $Y_{iT}$. So $Y$ is only observed at the final ...
### Degrees of freedom of $\chi^2$ in Hosmer-Lemeshow test
The test statistic for the Hosmer-Lemeshow test for goodness of fit of a logistic regression model is defined as follows: the sample is split into $d=10$ deciles, $D_1, D_2, \dots , D_{d}$, per ...