Questions tagged [subset]
1 set, A, is a subset of another, B, iff all elements of A are elements of B.
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Determining whether it matters which subset I pick from my dataset
I'm going to simplify my own research problem with the following example:
Lets suppose I have N=40 students in my classroom. I need to select 20 of them to participate in a national math competition. ...
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Resample dataframe by random subset of years
I have a dataset of 59 years worth of daily rainfall data.
I'd like to resample the data by 6 randomly selected years 1,000 times, using the entire year of data for each of the 6 years (so 2190 ...
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Sample subsets with distribution proportional to elementwise product
I have a set of $n$ elements, $x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n$, each with a weight $w_1, w_2,\dots, w_n$. I want to sample a subset of fixed size $k$ such that the probability of drawing $\{x_a,\dots,x_b\}$ is ...
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Unsupervised clustering of sequence of events to subsequences
I have a big dataset of M sequences of [1 - N] events, where each event has multiple properties (start date, end date, location, ...
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Why is the relationship between max(X,Y) and X and Y the way it is?
My textbook says that the above follows from the observation:
$\{W\leq w\}=\{X\leq w\},\{Y\leq w\}$,
How do we prove the above observation?
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Survival analysis with incomplete data
I would like to estimate the association between exposure to an environmental contaminant and all-cause mortality. Unfortunately the dataset I can get access to is incomplete - exposure data are only ...
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A non random subset of a distribution is similar to the original distribution, why?
I have near 1 million correlations between two groups of variables. The distribution looks normal for the distributions of interest (centered around 0 and symmetric):
Using some other methods (not ...
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k-means and (re?) standardisation of a sub-set
I have data which is customer purchases of items in each of three months:
I have summed the data over the three months for each customer;
calculated the proportion of purchases that each item ...
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Dividing datasets into fully-correlating subsets
I have a dataset of $N$ variables of which I know that (at least) one combination of their disjoint subsets results in non-negative correlation coefficients for all variables in these subsets. The ...
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Consistency metric explanation
I am trying to understand a bit more about the consistency metric (to understand how consistency-based subset evaluation works).
I find on this paper the following equation :
$$\text{Consistency}_s =...
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When should a regression be run across the subsets of a population vs the entire population
At work we are looking to run some models on subsets of a population. For the sake of this post, I'll call the models created on subsets 'conditional' and the model run on the entire population '...
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Finding p-value of similarity between 2 networks
So, I want to calculate p-value of a case if possible.
Suppose I have:
set A with 1,295 elements
set B with 493 elements
number of same element between set A and B (intersection) is 478
From each ...
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Are the assumptions of subset selection violated of all the data comes from a single person?
I’m interested in using machine learning techniques such as subset selection, lasso and ridge regression to predict which words an individual kid will get wrong. I have about 300 predictors and all my ...
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Probability that 3 out of 4 sets have non-empty intersection
I have $4$ randomly sampled subsets from population set $S = \{1,2,...,100\}$. Each subset has size $24$.
What is the probability that at least one element is common among $3$ out of $4$ subsets?
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Dealing with many NA's in very large datasets for Lasso
I have a few very large and quite "dirty" (survey) datasets. Primarily, there are lots of NA's. These NA's are mostly the result of different questions being asked in different waves. It is perfectly ...
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finding expected value when a set is given and a subset of size n is chosen
I found an interesting coding challenge on pramp by a friend but I couldn't do it in time. Anyhow, it says given a set { 3,14,7,22,29,33} and random 3 element subset is generated each time and its ...
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Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension
My question has to do with the VC dimension of the class of convex polygons with $m$ vertices. A solution to this problem is given in the following: Advanced Algorithms.
Call the class of all ...
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Why low error indicates better model when only one feature is used?
In this lecture, starting from first minute, there is an example of features for housing application. Let's say number of features is 1. I understand why lowest error indicates better model, but why ...
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how to create a subset of models? [closed]
I want to select a specific models from a list of models generated by:
m2 <- glm.nb(NroAnimales ~ anio + diaJuliano + I(diaJuliano^2) + BFmediana , data =datos, na.act
ModelSel<-dredge(m2,rank=...
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How to create a subset that respect the same distribution of the original data set?
I have a presumably easy question for you, but I am a real newbie in statistics, so please be patient. I have a data set containing $N$ values that more or less follows a normal distribution. I need ...
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Is this an example of a multiple comparisons problem?
I am conducting a comprehensive research determining the effect of 3 independent variables on the metabolic rate of an organism. However, the set-up of my data analysis leads me to believe that I ...
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How many subsets have n values greater/lesser than values in remaining subset?
For example, given set of ten numbers:
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
Split into two equal-sized subsets. Multichoose calculates 252 configurations of subsets with 5 values (pick 5 from 10).
Only ...
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Similarity metric for sets of sets of nominal data
I felt it important to include the full motivation for my question, since part of my trouble I think is simply not knowing the terms to search for.
Similarity of set of sets
and
Similarity metric ...
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ML method to identify data subset with lower average values?
I have a task where I need to find anomalous groups of observations [y,X] by the average value of y, using the feature set X.
A good interpretation is that these are customers and I want to find the ...
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Subset with largest information gain
I am competing in a programming contest where the submission phase can be stated abstractly as follows : There is a known universe set, $U$, and a hidden target $T \subset U$. I submit $S \subset U$, ...
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Variance of set of subsets
First of all sorry for the sloppy terminology, but I am right looking for the name of a statistical concept.
I was asked to calculate the "turnover" of the Facebook friends commenting on my posts, ...
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Decompose Covariance by Observations
Suppose I observe $n$ iid realizations of two random variables $X$ and $Y$, denoted respectively $x_i$ and $y_i$. Observations can be groupped into two subsamples, with $n_1$ and $n_2$ observations. I ...
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How to test whether subgroup is influential in overall group mean? (whether removing a subgroup affects results/all-but-subgroup mean != overall mean)
This question is similar to this one but I want to test whether the all-but-subgroup mean differs from overall group including the subgroup. This is DIFFERENT FROM THAT QUESTION in that the question ...
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How can I perform a two-sample multivariate t-test where one group is a subset of the other?
Is it possible to compare two means (ideally multivariate) where one comes from a group that is the subset of the other group?
E.g. the first group consists of A, B, C, D, E subjects and the second ...
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Heteroscedasticity in Data, none in Subset
This might seem like a trvial questions to some but sadly not me.
My dataset has heteroscedasticity and therefore I use a heteroscedasticity consistent standard error estimator (I use the RLM macro ...
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Small values are sorted incorrectly, subset() gives wrong data in R [closed]
I have a (gwas-)data where one column is p-value. P-values vary from $1*10^{-8}$ to $1$.
I would want to have a subset where I have only values where p-value is $5*10^{-5}$ or lower.
I have the ...
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Comparing N-way joint frequency distributions of different subsets?
Say I have binary variables:
tall
basketball player
football player
vegan
programmer
student
We are also given subsets of a population.
My objective is that I want find out what combination of ...
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Store outputs of Lm performed on conditional dataframe subsets?
I am trying to store the regression's slopes of two variables recorded for different individuals through a season.
What I would like is the slope of the regression for each individual for each day (...
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Bias in forward stepwise selection in regression
Let $Y=X\beta+E$ be a linear model with p variables and suppose that we perform som subset selection and we only use k variables where $k<p$.
I want to get the biase os the new model.
I call $X=(...
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Find a subset of input data space with high classification accuracy?
I'm having what would seem to be quite a general and widely applicable problem but I can't find literature on the subject.
Example problem: Imagine I have medical records of thousands of patients (...
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How to properly select elements to tag manually for building training and test sets?
I have to select a subset (short texts like comments and twitter posts) out of a huge population to tag them manually for building a sentiment analysis training and test set. How should I select these ...
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ISLR book ridge/lasso regression cross-validation
I work with the book 'Introduction to statistical learning with R', link. I got a question about the cross-validation for ridge and lasso regressions (ellipsis indicate that part of the original code ...
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Subset Sum with Constraints
I'm taking a look at what I have identified as being a subset sum problem.
I have around 650 potential values which could form part of my single sum value. I've began looking into the typical ...
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Using blocking in propensity score analysis?
I'm considering blocking my analysis dataset on one or two key variables prior to a standard sub-classification propensity score analysis.
For example, if my dataset (which contains member level pre- ...
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Bias in average age for grandmaster title qualification by age groups?
It has been known for quite some time that the youngest age at which chess players managed to qualify for the grandmaster title has significantly decreased since the 1950s, and there are currently ...
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R: subsetting survey design fails after raking
all. I hope you can help me with a problem I encountered while analyzing data from a survey. I have actually done all the analysis, but after that obtained more reliable data about the population ...
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Unable to figure out equation with set probabilities
I am currently self-studying with Casella & Berger and there is a problem that has me stumped. Please note I am NOT asking for a solution, I just need clarification on the terms used.
Here is the ...
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Significance for the whole dataset of detections in a subsample
I have a fairly simple question, but I am not so familiar with these problems so I would like to ask.
If I have, let's say, 4 data samples belonging to the same overall population. If in a test a ...
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Predicting from RPart using a subset of variables
I fitted a RPart model from all of a couple dozen variables. Now, I want to test predictions using just a couple of variables that seem significant to me.
If it was the iris dataset, for example, I ...
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Membership probability for distributions over subsets
Fix a set $\mathfrak{A}$ and a probability distribution $\mathcal{D} : 2^\mathfrak{A} \to [0,1]$ defined over subsets of $\mathfrak{A}$. We can then ask "what is the probability $p(x)$ that a subset ...
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Is it needed to train the selected model again on entire data before putting in production?
When a dataset is needed to be modeled, the process is to take a part of it out as holdout set which is "unseen" by the training method and is used to test the performance of models created using ...
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Testing variables in meta-analysis
I am conducting a meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioural interventions on self-esteem and I could use some assistance navigating through the statistical procedures.
I have extracted pre-post scores ...
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How does one go about determining the standard deviation of an entire sample data set?
I have frequently been faced with analyzing csv files that are limited in length to approximately 32,000 records in length (overflows at 32,768, from signed integer limits on a 16 bit wide data bus).
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Subselect Package R - The covariance/total matrix supplied is not symmetric?
I was trying out the Subselect R package to see how it worked and if it would be useful for a logistic regression problem I'm working on. Link to the package.
I decided I would follow Example 4 on ...
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Can forward and backward selection give the same model?
I'm using forward stepwise selection and backward stepwise selection to produce models in R. However, I got the exactly same model for two different methods. Is that normal?
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