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### Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric?

Can someone explain to me why would anyone choose a parametric over a nonparametric statistical method for hypothesis testing or regression analysis? In my mind, it's like going for rafting and ...
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### Latent Class Analysis vs. Cluster Analysis - differences in inferences?

What are the differences in inferences that can be made from a latent class analysis (LCA) versus a cluster analysis? Is it correct that a LCA assumes an underlying latent variable that gives rise to ...
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### Why is t-SNE not used as a dimensionality reduction technique for clustering or classification?

In a recent assignment, we were told to use PCA on the MNIST digits to reduce the dimensions from 64 (8 x 8 images) to 2. We then had to cluster the digits using a Gaussian Mixture Model. PCA using ...
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### Is there any algorithm combining classification and regression?

I'm wondering if there's any algorithm could do classification and regression at the same time. For example, I'd like to let the algorithm learn a classifier, and at the same time within each label, ...
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### How to prepare/construct features for anomaly detection (network security data)

My goal is to analyse network logs (e.g., Apache, syslog, Active Directory security audit and so on) using clustering / anomaly detection for intrusion detection purposes. From the logs I have a lot ...
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### Mixture models vs Mixed models

I was wondering what is the difference between Mixture models and Mixed models in Statistics? Explaining with Any practical example would be appreciated.
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### How do you find a cutting point / strong slope within one-dimensional data

I have one-dimensional data. I want to find possible natural cutting points (strong slopes) within the data. For instance, if the data is ...
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### How to combine two beta-binomial distributions

Say I have the following situation. I have two weighted coins: Coin 1: In the past I've seen this coin flipped 10 times, 8 of which it came up heads. So I can model the probability of $n$ heads out ...
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### Observations from two distribution functions mixed, how to separate them?

Assume I have 100 observations, I know they are from two distribution functions, they are mixed together. Is this possible to find out which distribution they are coming from? Here is an example in ...
Say that we got a set $\mathcal{X} = \{x_1, x_2, \ldots\}$ of samples. You want to partition $\mathcal{X}$ into $k$ subsets, where $k$ is unknown besides the fact that $k \ge 1$. How clustering ...
If I have 100 numbers from two separate groups $X$ and $Y$. How can I manually estimate or derive an algorithm to automatically estimate $AVG(X)$ and $AVG(Y)$? I know all the numbers, but I don't ...