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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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### 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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### How does a Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) work?

Relevance Vector Machines (RVMs) are really interesting models when contrasted with the highly geometrical (and popular) SVMs. In the light of a question like How does a Support Vector Machine (SVM) ...
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### Wavelet-domain Gaussian processes: what is the covariance?

I've been reading Maraun et al, "Nonstationary Gaussian processes in wavelet domain: Synthesis, estimation, and significant testing" (2007) which defines a class of non-stationary GPs that ...
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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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### Bootstrapping Generalized Least Squares

Scenario: Consider the use of bootstrapping to estimate the distribution of model parameters fitted per a linear or nonlinear generalized least squares model. In particular, assume there is a ...
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### Blind source separation of convex mixture?

Suppose I have $n$ independent sources, $X_1, X_2, ..., X_n$ and I observe $m$ convex mixtures: \begin{align} Y_1 &= a_{11}X_1 + a_{12}X_2 + \cdots + a_{1n}X_n\\ ...&\\ Y_m &= a_{m1}X_1 + ...
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### Fitting custom distributions by MLE

My question relates to fitting custom distributions in R but I feel it has enough of a probability element to remain on CV. I have an interesting set of data which has the following characteristics: ...
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### Distribution of inverse Wishart to a power?

In a related question, I had asked about the norm induced by an inverse Wishart matrix. I am interested in generalizing that result somewhat. Let $A\sim\mathcal{W}_p\left(I,n\right)$, a Wishart matrix ...
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### Visualizing many left-skewed distributions

I have a series of left-skewed/heavy tailed distributions that I would like to show. There are 42 distributions across three factors (labeled as A, ...
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### How to measure the reliability of a consensus ranking (problem from Kemeny-Snell book)

Suppose that $k$ experts are each asked to rank a set of $n$ objects in order or preference. Let allow ties in the rankings. John Kemeny and Laurie Snell in their 1962 year book "Mathematical models ...
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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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### Should I use a seasonal arima or stl decomposition and model residuals only?

I have a basic question in time series modeling. (using r but the question is not particularly about r) For a time series with obvious seasonality, shall I use stl (Seasonal and Trend decomposition ...
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### Interpreting log likelihood

I have difficulty interpreting some results. I am doing an hierarchical related regression with ecoreg. If I enter the code I receive output with odds ratios, ...
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### Empirical Prediction interval for time series forecast based on quantile regression

As Gardner notes "almost all point forecasts are wrong", so prediction intervals (PI) are necessary to quantify uncertainty and help us make informed decisions. There exists theoretical PI, and in ...
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### Does using bootstrapped samples improve parameter estimates for a fitted distribution?

The R package retimes has a function for fitting an ex-Gaussian distribution to a set of observations. The method involves taking multiple bootstrapped samples of the observations, and fitting the ex-...