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I'm an deeply curious researcher and analyst, combining 15 years of experience in communications and 15 years of experience in computer programming, including a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence.


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answered Calculating level 2 variable based on mean of level 1 variable with multilevel model in R
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answered Are these equivalent representations of the same hierarchical Bayesian model?
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comment Why are time-related covariates log transformed in modelling?
I've seen a lot of time series log-transformed for interpretability reasons, as Graeme Walsh says in his answer. I've never heard of "year" being log transformed. Are you sure it's "year" that's being transformed and not a time series (say, GDP) that has a year associated with it?
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comment Is the union of two reservoir samples a random sample?
+1 for mentioning "reservoir samples", which caused me to learn something new.
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answered What is the difference between an estimator and a statistic?
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comment How do Bayesians compare distributions?
@naught101: Obviously any range you pick is arbitrary: 95%, 99%, etc. These are credibile intervals, however, so they mean what casual frequentists think confidence intervals mean: we're 95% (or 99%, etc) certain that the valua lies within this range. Note that you also need a ROPE, as opposed to Sam's answer which assumes exact equality, which will never actually be true. (It's often assumed in frequentist calculations, but it's never actually true). Computationally intensive matters less with quad-core processors in even laptops. (Unless you're working with Big Data.)
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comment How do Bayesians compare distributions?
@naught101: I've updated the blog link. He's evidently kept older versions of the article and each links to a newer one, and the one I first linked to is three versions out of date.
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