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Test whether a Metropolis-Hastings chain is "sufficiently near" equilibrium using the autocorrelation function
Let $(E,\mathcal E)$ be a measurable space, $(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a probability space, $(X_n)_{n\in\mathbb N_0}$ be an $(E,\mathcal E)$-valued process on $(\Omega,\mathcal A,\...
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Transformation of predictors for generalized additive model
I have a gam model with automatic predictor selection based on cubic splines (bs = cr) and SELECT == T or shrinkage cubic splines (bs = cs) and SELECT == F.
As I know these predictors should be scaled,...
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Carrying over the standard deviation across calculations
I have conducted a measurement of sample on an instrument. I thus have the value of my samples, of a blank, and the standard deviation of said blank. I would like to execute operations on the value of ...
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Bounds of Shapley values for variable importance
Imagine you have a very good predictive model $f$ for a response $y$. Is it possible to bound the "true" Shapley values of $y$ in terms of the Shapley values of $f$ and the prediction error?
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Cross-lagged Pearson correlation in R
I have a dataset where I have two recordings (sessions) of two different variables.
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Question on the proof of convergence of K-Means
First, the question has answers here and here, however I am still slightly confused.
Let's state the problem formally below, extracted from Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning book, ...
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Can any Model be Modified into a "Autoregressive Model"?
In one of Data Science classes, we were given a dataset to explore that contains medical/health information on patients and whether they missed their last doctors appointment or not (e.g. most of the ...
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Correct creation of the null distribution for bootstrapped $p$-values
Let's say we want to calculate the two-sided $p$-value for a linear regression coefficient using bootstrapping. The null hypothesis is $\beta_1 = 0$. For the non-parametric (case-resampling) bootstrap,...
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Why do the bootstrap calculated p-value and the confidence intervals seem to contradict each other [R code, specific example]?
Below you'll find the data and the corresponding R code used to perform the bootstrap hypothesis test to compare the ratio of the means of two samples and additionally, to estimate the 95% confidence ...