Questions tagged [application]
applications of statistics and statistical modeling
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Example of “alternating” mass function for discrete distribution
My question is related to this question on Math.SE where it was shown that there exist discrete distributions with probability mass functions that "oscillate" in a non-monotonic way over an ...
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Potential applications of a result (by Beyer et al) on distance concentration and meaningless nearest neighbors in high dimensions
My question is motivated by this question, and self-study of the paper "When is nearest neighbor meaningful?", where the authors show the following
Theorem 1: Let $X^{(d)} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ ...
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Psychology books FOR Statistics students
I can find a lot of book recommendations on Statistics for Psychology students. But can anyone suggest some good books for a Statistics student who wants to learn about applications of Statistics in ...
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What is “LASSO aggression”?
I found a paper that stated in the methods section that they ran "LASSO aggression". At first, I thought it was a funny typo but then I did a Google Search:
Google search
and found 187 sources ...
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Independence of censoring time $C$ and event time $T$ for randomised entry to a study
While reading through the textbook 'Modern Applied Statistics With S' by Venables and Ripley, I came across the following paragraph detailing the different types of censoring possible when dealing ...
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When can we get sales data which is normally distributed?
I understood that the poisson data distribution is mostly used for sales data. However, I just wonder under which scenarios can one assume that data is instead normally distributed?
Maybe there was ...
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Productionize (applied) PCA to detect outlier etc. long term with new data
I was wondering how one could use PCA in e.g. a dashboard for non Subject Matter Expert.
For example, you are quite certain that 2 PCs are sufficient based on the current data. It also makes sense for ...
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Web application with model results for use in healthcare?
Often in medicine we use scores, so the patient gets 1 point for this symptom, another for this etc. and a final a score determines their risk/treatment strategy.
If we have reliable data and build a ...
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How biased is a statistical study in which sampling was purposely made without repeats? [duplicate]
[Cross posted on Math.SE]
It is understood in mathematical statistics that a sample (as in sampling distribution) may very well contain repeatedly the same item/subject.
In practice though, it would ...
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Are sampling distributions of any statistic used in real life statistical analyses?
I feel I am pretty good on the mathematical basis of CLT and sampling distributions.
HOWEVER:
While sources like OpenIntro Statistics (Diez et al, 2019) are fairly straighforward with their actual ...
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What apples do worms prefer? [closed]
I'm confused with some practical statistical problem, for which I have limited data and don't understand how to start with the problem. If anybody can point how such problems are (traditionally) ...
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Can someone provide a brief explanation as to why reproducing kernel Hilbert space is so popular in machine learning?
I thought functional analysis was long thought to be old fashioned and generally a dead research area.
It seems that all of a sudden there is a huge fascination with so-called reproducing kernel ...
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Interpreting ANOVA results in the educational context
I have run an experiment in a six-week course to measure the effect of my educational treatment on student engagement. The treatment happens on weeks 4 and 6 of the course (for all of the students) ...
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Why should we study copulas? [closed]
I am new to the study of copulas and I would like that someone could provide some examples where they are applied, their usefulness and so on. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Summarize regression results on different datasets
I have 20 datasets (extracted from 20 different software systems) and fit a logistic regression model on each of them. On every dataset, the model was the same (same dependent variable and the same ...
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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': how did they do this?
This message in a Reuter's article from 25.02.2019 is currently all over the news:
Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'
[Scientists] said confidence that human activities ...
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How do I measure effects over years in longitudinal panel data with individuals?
I'm working with a longitudinal panel dataset that surveys the same few thousand individuals biennially and I have six years of this data. My dependent variable would be how much individuals spend on ...
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How do I learn when to apply which statistical distributions? [closed]
I am learning Bayesian modeling and having trouble keeping straight when it is most appropriate to apply the various statistical distributions beyond the basic ones like the beta, binomial, and ...
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What does this paper mean by mean square error?
I'm reading a paper about estimating fetal weight by ultrasound and other techniques. In Table 2 they give descriptive statistics, to wit: of all the examiners, the one with the highest mean square ...
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Do you know of business applications of Reinforcement Learning?
I'm looking for literature on the application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms in a business context. Most articles and examples in books on RL are about the application of RL to games (...
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Variables common to all individuals in a panel
I have been tasked with evaluating the efficiency of different marketing tools for a microfinance bank.
I have a panel of seven individuals (seven districts of Tajikistan) over 17 months.
Dependent ...
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What modeling problem does ridge regression solve?
If your modeling problem is that you have too many features, a solution to this problem is LASSO regularization. By forcing some feature coefficients to be zero, you remove them, thus reducing the ...
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Testing the scope of application of a logistic regression model
My aim is to assess whether I can apply a logistic regression that was fitted on a sample A (where I have explanatory variables and the outcomes) to a different sample B where I don't know the ...
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Difference between Stochastic Approximation (SA) and Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)
I understand the intended use cases for both stochastic approximation algorithms like SPSA or FDSA, and for SGD algorithms like Adam.
SPSA is intended for noisy objective functions, and Adam for ...
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Mixture of power-law distribution
I have two large sets A and B of (integer) numbers, both obtained with two different (and unknown) probability distributions $\rho_A$ and $\rho_B$.
A (also large) set C contains a proportion $p$ of ...
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How Do You Choose The Number of Bins To Use For A Chi-Squared GOF Test?
I'm working on developing a physics lab about radioactive decay, and in analyzing sample data I've taken, I ran into a statistics issue that surprised me.
It is well known that the number of decays ...
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Population proportion inference: what statistical error am I committing here?
I am struggling to understand the following paradox.
Suppose we have a large population of people who exhibit different values of a trait, e.g. they are sick with different strains of a virus. ...
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Compare the slopes of categorical data
Hello I want to compare the slopes of the linear regression lines for the following distributions of sales figures over the years 2009 to 2017.
I want to compare the slopes of the regression lines - ...
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Real world applications of regressing complex numbers?
I recently extended a linear regression software I developed to include complex variables. It works very well but I am not familiar with how this can be used in the real world. I scoured the web to ...
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(Practical) Applications or RNN
I have been googling for a list of practical applications of Recurrent Neural Networks for some time, but did not find a reasonable reference list.
Most of the things are about text generation which ...
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Android Recommendation App Algorithm
I have this project proposal entitled "Android Based Program Recommendation App". (This application is for those college students who wants to shift to other programs).
The app will find a program ...
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Infering relative importance of features in driving a dependent variable
In an auctions website I maintain, auctions are listed most-recent-first. There are 20 auctions per page. A user can click next in the footer to view older auctions....
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Applying machine learning to dynamic complex systems (e.g. weather prediction)
Would it be correct to say that:
Physics-based, domain specific models are more widely used and are more practical in (longer term) weather forecasts than pure machine learning approaches
The reason ...
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Practical application for theoretical sampling process
Does the following sampling process model any particular real life scenario ? If so, could you point me to some relevant scientific papers.
Consider an arbitrary probability distribution $\mathcal{D}$...
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Finding correlations in a large dataset
My main objective is to find correlations between process parameters and their impact (more specifically: the amount of wear measured) on specific sections of equipment used in the process.
I've ...
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What statistic is appropriate to test if measured data points from untrusted sources are accurate enough?
Suppose I'm retrieving the price of asset from 3 different independent sources.
What statistic can I use to test whether data points are close enough that I can be confident they're correct?
I have ...
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Can the exponential distribution actually be used to model light bulbs lifetime?
In my textbook they use the lifetimes of lightbulbs (or other mechanical failures) as an example for an application of the exponential distribution.
Can/is this actually done in real life? The reason ...
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Gamma distribution and applications
I'm looking for references to read about gamma distribution and applications in industry or in quality control.
I had a look at statistical methods for reliability data (Meeker and Escobar). It has ...
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Good examples/books/resources to learn about applied machine learning (not just ML itself)
I've taken an ML course previously, but now that I am working with ML related projects at my job, I am struggling quite a bit to actually apply it. I'm sure the stuff I'm doing has been researched/...
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Statistical assessment of people skills via PCA
I would like to assess the skills of a lot of persons on a few main axis.
Let me explain my proposal.
For each skills axes, I propose several questions. Each question gives a score from 0 to 10.
Once ...
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Bayesian inference and a logistic weight control problem
Currently I have a lot of problems to select which I want to work on. For some I already got ideas on how to solve it. However, I haven't dived deep into Bayesian inference so far but, from what I ...
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Hierarchical Bayesian Regression with an Indicator Variable, one group has all zeros for the IV Variable
I'm attempting to form a Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Model and one of my regressors is for an indicator variable. My hierarchy structure has separate group-level regressors related across-groups ...
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An example of delta method performing poorly
Q: Is there an example of the delta method being used in applied statistics where the sample size needed for a good approximation is practically unfeasible?
I am looking for an example from applied ...
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How to compare the means of two populations that were subject to five treatments?
I have two populations that were each subject to 5 different treatments and I want to compare their means.
This sounds like a great problem for multiple confidence intervals, but I don't want to make ...
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What is industrial statistics?
We have a course titled "Industrial Statistics". But I don't understand what is industrial statistics?
What I have understood after searching some sites is only that
Industrial statistics measure ...
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Which expansions and identities are useful to applied statisticians? [closed]
Simple mathematical relationships like $V(X) = E(X^2) - E(X)^2$, aside from being theoretical results, are useful because they allow analysts to do back-of-the-envelope calculations, restate results ...
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Successful applications of deep learning apart from image classification and NLP
Are there any successful applications of deep learning apart from image classification and NLP? I am aware of the winning approach of the Merck challenge on Kaggle only. However, I could not find more ...
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Good applied text for linear regression?
I have a pure math background and am now studying statistics. For additional study in my linear regression and time series class, my professor suggested a more applied text rather than a higher level ...
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Where is the uniform distribution with one parameter ($U(\theta, k \theta)$) useful for modelling?
I recently came across the distribution $U(\theta, k \theta)$ (where k is known) in the context of statistical theory (as a nice toy example for finding MLE and the likes).
However, I was wondering ...
