# Unanswered 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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### 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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### 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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### 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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### Updating classification probability in logistic regression through time

I am building a predictive model that forecasts a student's probability of success at the end of a term. I’m specifically interested in whether the student succeeds or fails, where success is usually ...
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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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### 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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### 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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### You observe k heads out of n tosses. Is the coin fair?

I was asked this question with $(n, k) = (400, 220)$ in an interview. Is there a "correct" answer? Assume the tosses are i.i.d. and the probability of heads is $p=0.5$. The distribution of the ...
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### Multivariant time series in R. How to find lagged correlation and build model for forecasting

I'm new in the page and pretty new in statistics and R. I'm working on a project for college with the objective of finding the correlation between rain and water flow level in rivers. Once the ...
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### Are categorical variables standardized differently in penalized regression?

In penalized/regularized regression (lasso, ridge, etc.) the predictors are typically standardized to be centered at 0 and often to have variance 1. Are categorical predictors treated differently. If ...
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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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### How do you select variables in a regression model?

The traditional approach to variable selection is to find variables that contribute the most to predicting a new response. Recently I learned of an alternative to this. In modeling variables that ...

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