Questions tagged [variability]
Variability or dispersion describes how a variable's values are spread out or compressed.
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Are my new intraindividual variability statistics sensical?
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In response to both of you: First, thank you for your responses. I wanted to clarify things about the threshold and provide some background. The peripheral blood eosinophil count (PBEC) is ...
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Statistical test for variability among more than one group
I am very new to statistics and still learning. Below are the funnel graphs which shows the effect/percentage of polypharmacy(patients with two or more drugs) against practice/hospital population size....
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Apportionment of variation
I have a dataset of hundereds of thousands of websites (categorical) with their CO2 emissions per request (quantitative) along with the data centre they're hosted in (categorical), and whether those ...
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Variability of patients in different Hospitals
just to let you know that my statistical background is not very good. I made funnel graphs which shows the effect of polypharmacy against practice size.
In the funnel graphs, a dot presents a single ...
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Frobenius norm of a correlation matrix as a measure of intraindividual variability
In APA-ATI Analysis of Intensive Longitudinal Data: Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessment
(link: https://quantdev.ssri.psu.edu/sites/qdev/files/APA-ATI_ILD_Session_E_-...
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lme output interpretation when including a varIdent(~ 1 | subject)
I am working on a project where I want to determine the sources of variability. I built the following model using the nlme package and lme function:
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Within-subject variability derived from an empty mixed effects model
I run an empty mixed-effect model with an AR1 structure. My dataset included repeated measures of 20 subjects:
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How do I compare 5 x 10 to 5 x 40 independent measurements? The first is assumed to be accurate, the latter is to be evaluated
There are two measuring devices, device 1 is the standard and considered to be very accurate.
The same five items are measured on both devices. The device 2 is calibrated to device 1, so the means are ...
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Standard deviation of standard deviation under non-normality
In this post, an unbiased estimator for the standard deviation of the standard deviation under normality is provided.
I would be interested in such an estimator without the normality assumption, i.e., ...
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What affects correlation in this situation?
Suppose a dataset I with 20 samples pairs of x and y collected from 20 different farms in State A.
Another dataset II with 20 samples pairs of x and y collected from 20 different farms in State A, B, ...
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Comparing within-subject variability across two groups
How can I compare the variability in a dependent variable for individuals across groups?
I don't really have the statistics vocabulary to ask this question, so I'll paint a picture instead. Let's say ...
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Why is the variance of a Bernoulli distribution the product of its probability of 'success' and 'failure'? [closed]
Can anyone explain in simple terms why the variance of a Bernoulli distribution is: $\mathrm{Var}[X] = p(1 – p)$? More generally, why is the binomial distribution's variance the product of the number ...
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How can I reduce correlation between two independents variable?
Edvard, the evaluator in sample B, does not know Richard, the target subject in sample A. However, the two, independently, give the same answer/Likert value (1-5) to 30% of the questionnaire items. It ...
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How do I analyze trial level variability from a dot probe (reaction time) task?
I have collected data from a dot probe attention bias (reaction time) task. I've computed summary scores for each condition, however, some people suggest it's important to also look at trial level ...
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Variability and Variation
I'm looking for a succinct explanation of the difference between variability and variation.
This question gets at the difference between variance and variation.
This page references Van Belle 2008 in ...
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How do I start and go about analyzing the variability of extreme rainfalls in a region?
I have a gridded dataset of monthly precipitation and would like to analyze the variability of extreme rainfall. However, aside from looking at the overview of basic statistics (mean, standard ...
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Variability Reduction Using Square Roots
I am averaging volumes over a couple of shapes using different orientations and plane views. I think I read somewhere that the variability can be reduced in proportional to the square root of the ...
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Does the variability come from repetitions or individual differences?
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Let's say I ran a model (partially stochastic) 100 times, with 10 repetitions (with 10 different seeds) on 10 data random subsamplings. I measured an error metric.
I am thus able to draw ...
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RStudio help with calculating variability independent of the mean [closed]
I looked at the the R code here (How to compute Variability Independent of the Mean (VIM)) but have run into my own trouble trying to calculate variability independent of the mean.
I have included my ...
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Assessing the effectiveness of a teaching tool by paired t-test
You have been asked to assess the effectiveness of a new teaching tool. A sample of 25 students from your classes have been tested before and after the provision of the tool, so each student has two ...
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Variability and mean
I am working with future climate change scenarios and I end up with this question.
Is it expected from a statistical perspective that a change in the mean goes hand-in-hand with a change in the ...
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A measure of variability/dispersion that captures only one direction of change
I am conducting a study trying to correlate changes in a biologic parameter (e.g., blood bilirubin concentration) with clinical outcomes (e.g., bleeding).
I have found that variability in such ...
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How variability with different data densities could affect comparisons among environmental variables
I have several sets of data continually measured and recorded by instruments. The periods of record are 30+ years and the frequency of measurement can be every 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes (288, 144. 96, ...
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What is the frequentist interpretation of uncertainty vs. variability?
I have been reading Begg, Welsh, and Bratvold (2014), which is an excellent and lucid discussion of the distinction between uncertainty and variability (from a petro/geostatistics perspective). The ...
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Calculating the degree of variability of a continuous variable
I found the term of "degree of variability" from a academic paper. It seems to be used to determine the cutoff of a continuous variable. The most drastic change point was used as the cutoff. ...
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How to interpret the second raw moment?
I know the second raw moment is defined as $E(X^2)$, for $X$ being a random variable drawn from any distribution or a given large data sample. I also know that based on variance decomposition,
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Repeated measurements needed for certainty [closed]
A bit of a silly question.
We have a model, which can be described as y = M(x) + some significant levels of noise.
We see that if we repeat the measurements of y N times, we can see a clear ...
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Measures of variability that do not depend on the sample size
I want to compare the range of scores across two samples with differing sample sizes. The usual measures, standard deviation (SE), standard error (SE), and variance all depend on sample size, with n ...
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How to determine normal variability and understand whether other values may be clinically relevant?
I have been examining asymmetry in a new measure of brain pathology in a large sample of 300 clinically normal individuals. Many of these variables are normally distributed, some have a bit of a skew ...
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Standard deviation of X compared to 1-X, a problem related to utilities and statistical decisions
In health economics, a utility $U$ is defined as 1 = perfect health and 0 = death, though it is possible to have utilities $<0$ for conditions worse than death. Theoretically, $U$ is therefore in ...
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Using random effects for a between-subjects variable to assess variability in a mixed model
I want to use a mixed model to test random effects for between subject factors.
Similar questions have been covered before, with answers that it can be done using lme4. (See here and here for some ...
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How to measure variability of categorical time series?
I have a list of categorical variable time series. For example
A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A
A, B, C, A, B, C, C, C, A
A, Z, D, X, Y, T, A, A, F
C, D, C, D, C, D, D, C, C
A, A, A, A, B, A, A, A, A
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Accuracy of MLE
Hi I have a question related to MLE.
Consider a simple linear regression model:
y = a + b*x + u
Here, if the regressor X has small variability, the OLE estimator could be inaccurate.
My question is ...
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Market Analysis?
I am currently working on a personal project where I am trying to analyse a small mmorpg marketplace. I have access to the average price and the quality moved for every item, every three hours (going ...
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Optimal amount of variability in predictor variables?
Is there a documented reference range for how much variability is optimal for predictive models? Or how much is too little and how much is too much?
In some of my data I have a few variables that ...
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Formal language for describing variability of a random experiment
I have a random experiment with its probability space $(\Omega, \cal{F}, P)$ but no random variable defined over it. Is there any formal language for describing the variability of the random ...
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Test for significant difference from zero
I have a set of actor's activity coefficients for different subjects for every day in a given time range, which looks like this:
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Informational value of R squared and correlation? [closed]
Taleb has previously undermined the typical interpretation of correlation with regards to the informational value it carries, showing how the uncertainty is reduced in a non-linear fashion.
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A high variability in A is associated with outcome X : The use of the Coefficient of Variation to predict outcomes?
I want to know whether the Coefficient of Variation is a valid tool for the following problem:
The goal is to assess whether high variability in blood concentrations of a pharmaceutical drug is ...
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Time series Variability
How to understand variabilty between output and input variable, can someone help me in understanding how mean, variance and sd will help in identifying relation between them.
I have added a glimpse ...
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What model to use to evaluate whether the "variability" of one variable is determined by the "variability" of other variables?
I have observations taken for four subjects at a number of points/locations. The data is formatted similarly to as below:
I am not directly interested in the impact that a predictor has on the ...
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What's the best method to measure relative variability for non normal data?
I have a set of data that states the volume required each month for the next 12 for 750 raw materials.
I would like to determine the variability in the demand for each material, and categorise the ...
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Measure for variability of proportional data
I have a list of expected values (E) for the proportions of 20 amino acids in protein sequences.In a particular set of protein sequences these proportions differ from the expected values. In a subset ...
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Understanding partial autocorrelation (PACF) and variability
A strong positive partial autocorrelation of lag 1 means that an observation is highly correlated with its previous observation whereas a near zero PACF indicates no correlation.
Does that mean that ...
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How to calculate the variability of proportions?
I need to find the proper sample size, and I have found formula in the Stanford lectures. But I can’t understand what the “variability” of proportions means in this case.
Consider two proportions :
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Why we try to capture variability?
I am new to Statistics and I have a Mathematics background. In Statistics, particularly in Linear Regression and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) so far what I have understood is that the main idea ...
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Measuring relative variability for variables with different scales II
I'm reformulating this question to see if I might have better luck than OP did at encouraging a response.
Consider that you have two univariate datasets at different scales, and need to establish ...
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Ways of visually comparing variance of data [closed]
I have a dataset containing 8 categories, I now want to visually compare the variance between the categories. The most common approach would be to use box plots or violin plots but I would like to ...
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Variability of positive and negative values
I'm interested in variability of postural changes in blood pressure. From a lying to standing position, blood pressure can fall or rise. In my dataset, I have 4 measurements of postural changes over ...
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If we change only one value of a data set, will the mean absolute deviation behave in the same way as standard deviation?
I took the new data as b and the data removed as a and calculated the new mean and used that to find the new mean and deviation in terms of the old. But it gets too complicated and there is no way to ...
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