Joris Meys

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Statistician and R programmer at the faculty of Bio-Engineering, university of Ghent

Co-author of 'R for Dummies' (out in july 2012 )

contact : Joris - dot - Meys - at - Ugent - dot - be


40 Answers

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Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?
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How to figure out the behind concept of statistical-look problems?
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Is it meaningful to test for normality with a very small sample size (e.g., n = 6)?
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Alternatives to logistic regression in R
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How to draw valid conclusions from “big data”?
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Choosing the best model from among different “best” models
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Binomial confidence interval estimation - why is it not symmetric?
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What is the difference between a “nested” and a “non-nested” model?
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Clustering with a distance matrix
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How to explain such a big difference between parametric and non parametric test (and other questions)?
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Method to reliably determine abnormal statistical values
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Feature selection for “final” model when performing cross-validation in machine learning
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Statistical inference when the sample “is” the population
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How to store the standard errors with the lm() function in R?
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Goodness-of-fit test using Kolmogorov-Smirnov
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Why does the McNemar's test use chi-square and not the normal distribution?
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How do you explain the difference between relative risk and absolute risk?
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Interpreting the drop1 output in R
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Are there any examples where Bayesian credible intervals are obviously inferior to frequentist confidence intervals
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How do we create a confidence interval for the parameter of a permutation test?
4
Can chi square be used to compare proportions?
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How do I get people to take better care of data?
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Difference between histogram and pdf?
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Expected value of small sample
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Segmented nonlinear regression in R?
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Have I computed these likelihood ratios correctly?
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Setting up experiment for statistical analysis
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Changing null hypothesis in linear regression
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Can constrained optimization techniques be applied to unconstrained problems?
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Distance between empirically generated distributions (in R)
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