Karl

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Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; research in statistical genetics.


106 Answers

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Are there differences in Bayesian and frequentist approaches to EDA?
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Is my data distribution normal? (Tried Shapiro and Kolmogornov-Smirnov tests)
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What are the modeling approaches in this cartoon?
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Can the percentages in a pie chart add up to more than $100\%$ and the data or analyses will still make sense (or be logical)?
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Why is the square root of the product of two regression coefficients, one from X predicting Y and vice versa equal to the correlation?
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Can I delete excessive number of multivariate outliers, like over 10% in sample?
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Why is it bad to teach students that p-values are the probability that findings are due to chance?
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How to set the optimal number of simulations
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What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?
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What are the disadvantages of the profile likelihood?
6
Understanding “variance” intuitively
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How to verify extremely low error rates
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Notation conventions for random variables and their distributions
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Can one leave out data from research because it is not significant?
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How to find confidence intervals for ratings?
6
Are decision forests and random forests the same thing?
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Difference between bias-variance dilemma and overfitting
5
Statistics on mathematical “data”?
5
Calculating the probability of gene list overlap between an RNA seq and a ChIP-chip data set
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Narrow confidence interval — higher accuracy?
5
What do you call a chart that looks like a half pie chart with a needle indicating a percentage?
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Is there a reference that legitimises the use of the unpooled z-test to compare two proportions?
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How to generate nD point process?
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Solving constrained system of linear equations with R
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Datasets for data visualization examples, teaching and research
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How do you model a scalar response using a scalar IV, a categorical IV and categorical covariate w/ interactions?
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Difference between homoscedastic and homogenic-variance data
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Adding correlation coefficients of time series
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Why is the Breusch-Pagan test significant on simulated data designed not to be heteroscedastic?
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What does the dashed bounds mean when plotting a contour plot with R GAM?
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