# All Questions

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### Link Anomaly Detection in Temporal Network

I came across this paper that uses link anomaly detection to predict trending topics, and I found it incredibly intriguing: The paper is "Discovering Emerging Topics in Social Streams via Link Anomaly ...
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### Did Deborah Mayo refute Birnbaum's proof of the likelihood principle?

This is somewhat related to my previous question here: An example where the likelihood principle *really* matters? Apparently, Deborah Mayo published a paper in Statistical Science refuting Birnbaum'...
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### Bound for Arithmetic Harmonic mean inequality for matrices?

NOTE: This question has originally been posted in MSE, but it did not generate any interest. It was first posted there, because the question itself is a pure matrix-algebra question. Nevertheless, ...
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### Writing out the mathematical equation for a multilevel mixed effects model

The CV Question I'm trying to give (a) detailed and concise mathematical representation(s) of a mixed effects model. I am using the lme4 package in R. What is the ...
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### Ratios in Regression, aka Questions on Kronmal

Recently, randomly browsing questions triggered a memory of on off-hand comment from one of my professors a few years back warning about the usage of ratios in regression models. So I started reading ...
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### The role of scale parameter in GEE

I am learning the generalized estimating equations (GEE) and the geepack R package. There are some questions that I am a little confused. In a GEE-constructed ...
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### Penalized spline confidence intervals based on cluster-sandwich VCV

This is my first post here, but I've benefited a lot from this forum's results popping up in google search results. I've been teaching myself semi-parametric regression using penalized splines. ...
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### How to compute confidence interval in ANOVA with repeated measures?

I made a model using repeated measures univariate ANOVA in R. ...
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### Testing for a significant difference between ML estimates: Likelihood ratio or Wald test?

I am trying to test whether or not there is a significant difference between maximum likelihood estimates of two genetic parameters (selection and dominance) across two environments with genotype data ...
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### Are non-square latin hypercubes viable?

At https://github.com/OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework/issues/599 it is stated that non-square Latin Hypercube experimental design is not well defined (I assume that for higher dimensions that means ...
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### How to use G Power 3 to calculate statistical power in mixed design ANOVA with unequal group sample sizes

In G power 3, ANOVA repeated measures within-between interaction: Only the total sample size is reported assuming equal sample size for the two groups. My questions are: How would it work if the ...
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### What is Shannon's source entropy?

Suppose that ${X_n; Y_n}$ is a random process with a discrete alphabet, that is, taking on values in a discrete set for $n$ data length. They correspond to the input and output of a communication ...
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### In Random Forest, why is a random subset of features chosen at the node level rather than at the tree level?

My Question: Why does random forest consider random subsets of features for splitting at the node level within each tree rather than at the tree level? Background: This is something of a history ...
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### Intuitive understanding of the Halmos-Savage theorem

The Halmos-Savage theorem says that for a dominated statistical model $(\Omega, \mathscr A, \mathscr P)$ a statistic $T: (\Omega, \mathscr A, \mathscr P)\to(\Omega', \mathscr A')$ is sufficient if (...
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### Backpropagation on a convolutional layer

Online tutorials describe in depth the convolution of an image with a filter, etc; However, I have not seen one that describes the backpropagation on the filter (at least visually). First let me try ...
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### What are multivariate orthogonal polynomials as computed in R?

Orthogonal polynomials in an univariate set of points are polynomials that produce values on that points in a way that its dot product and pairwise correlation are zero. R can produce orthogonal ...
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### What is tantile regression?

My question follows on this discussion of medials and tantiles vs medians and quantiles from earlier this year: When would we use tantiles and the medial, rather than quantiles and the median? As ...
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### How do I identify the “Long Tail” portion of my distribution?

I have a number of series that would typically be described as normal skewed or Gamma distributed. For example, say I have a group of customers and have calculated their spend over a fixed length of ...
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### Understanding Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) Likelihood Ratio

I am a software developer looking to develop an alternative for the simple hypothesis testing scheme described here. In short, the test works as follows: Two URLs are compared for their ability to ...
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### Variance of the Kaplan-Meier estimate for dependent observations

Can someone help me find a way to estimate the variance of the Kaplan-Meier estimate with dependent observations? Specifically, I have failure time data from patients with several different ...
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### Compute partial $\eta^2$ for all fixed effects anovas from a lme4 model

Disclamer: I wasn't sure where to post this question: CV or SO, but eventually decided to try here first I've been asked by one of the reviewers to add effects sizes (preferably $\eta^2_p$ which is ...
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### What is the logic behind “rule of thumb” for meaningful differences in AIC?

I've been struggling to find meaningful guidelines for comparing models based on differences in AIC. I keep coming back to the rule of thumb offered by Burnham & Anderson 2004, pp. 270-272: ...
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### No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC): how do I understand the doubling process?

I'm reading the original NUTS paper by Hoffman and Gelman, but couldn't fully understand the recursively doubling process. The following figure is taken from the paper. The NUTS process starts ...
Sibisi and Skilling (1996, also mentioned in the 1997 paper) define Bayesian kernel density as $$f(x) = \int dx' \,\phi(x')\, K(x, x') \tag{2}$$ Here the kernel $K$ is an assigned smooth ...