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### forget_bias interpretation in tensorflow

In Basic LSTM cell of tensorflow there is an argument named forget_bias. From the documentation of ...
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### clustering with KL divergence

Recently I read some papers which related to clustering. The paper is https://xifengguo.github.io/papers/ICONIP17-DCEC.pdf In this paper, they calculate Loss function as KL Divergence, KL(P||Q). ...
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### Selection criteria for penalty parameters in the ridge multinomial logit model

I appeal to you for the following doubt. I am adjusting a ridge multinomial logit model but I have problems in the criterion when choosing the lambda parameter that gives better results, besides ...
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### How to show that cov(Yi, Y-bar)= (σ(^2) y)/n

I'm trying to figure out how to do this proof, and then use it to show that sample variance is an unbiased estimator.
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### Visualizing separability / independence

I’d like to visually ‘see’ the independence of random variables. I tried plotting f(x), f(y), and f(x, y) for independent and dependent pairs of variables. However, the difference is still not ...
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### Estimating Differential entropy from unbiased samples of a probability distribution

If I can get N unbiased samples $x$ from $p(x)$ how can I approximate the Differential entropy: $$H(X) = -\displaystyle\int_{x} p(x)\log p(x) dx$$ I'm not very knowledgeable in statistics so I'm not ...
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### Advice on ML ideas/models for a data set I have

I have a very large marketing data set (300GB in size) and I am wondering what ML models I can apply to it. The dataset consists of transactional data from supermarkets. The type of data I have is the ...
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### Correlation above 1 between second-order and first-order latent variable

So I ran CFA on an exhaustion measure comprising of three facets which were specified as first-order latent variables. When I added a secon-order latent variable to the model the correlation between ...
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### zero conditional mean assumption coupled with random sampling assumption (deriving unbiasedness)

I don't get part of the explanation of deriving unbiasedness of OLS in my textbook. I understand that to derive unbiasedness we have to use conditional expectation (conditioning on $x$) so that the ...
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### How do you interpret the Cliff's delta & 95% Confidence Interval (2−tailed) graph?

I've recently just completed a cliff's delta on a data set containing ordinal data (Strongly disagree to strongly agree), and have graphed the results. I'm just a little wary over how to exactly ...
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### How to conduct power analysis for unbalanced one-way ANOVA in R?

I am looking for a way to conduct power analysis for unbalanced one-way ANOVA in R. I found the pwd package; however, it only allows me to calculate power for ...
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### What is the relationship between regression and linear discriminant analysis (LDA)?

Is there a relationship between regression and linear discriminant analysis (LDA)? What are their similarities and differences? Does it make any difference if there are two classes or more than two ...
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### Probabilistic user behavior markov models on web

I am considering the following probabilistic Markov model of actions of a user on the results page of a search engine. The user examines the first result, with a probability $A$ he is satisfied with ...
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### Rescaling Linear Impulse Response Functions, Innovations, and Confidence Bands

all. I am using a VAR model to do a bit of analysis. I obtain cumulative (linear) orthogonalized impulse response functions (COIRF). Because I am conducting similar analysis across different time ...
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### Do these standardized residuals show heteroskedasticity?

I'm practising in the individuation of heteroskedasticity from the standardized residuals. I know that, if the time series is homoskedastic, the spread of the residuals should be constant and random ...
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I'm trying to get the best k from iris dataset using KNeighbors so I write the below code using scikit-learn. ...
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### When should we use the segregated as opposed to the aggregated data?

In the book "Causal Inference In Statistics" by Pearl et al., there is the following problem (study question 1.2.2.) A baseball batter Tim has a better batting average than his teammate Frank. ...