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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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### Shrunken $r$ vs unbiased $r$: estimators of $\rho$

There has been some confusion in my head about two types of estimators of the population value of Pearson correlation coefficient. A. Fisher (1915) showed that for bivariate normal population ...
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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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### 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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### 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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### 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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### What are the options in proportional hazard regression model when Schoenfeld residuals are not good?

I am doing a Cox proportional hazards regression in R using coxph, which includes many variables. The Martingale residuals look great, and the Schoenfeld residuals ...
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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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### 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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### When would we use tantiles and the medial, rather than quantiles and the median?

I can't find definitions for either tantile or medial on Wikipedia or Wolfram Mathworld, but the following explanation is given in Bílková, D. and Mala, I. (2012), "Application of the L-moment method ...
In a small data set ($n\sim100$ ) that I am working with, several variables give me perfect prediction/separation. I thus use Firth logistic regression to deal with the issue. If I select the best ...