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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 ...

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, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 + ...

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: ...

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 ...

An i.i.d sample $X_1,\dots,X_n$ from a scale family with c.d.f. $F(\frac{x}{\sigma})$ has $S(X)$ as an ancillary statistic if $S(X)$ depends on the sample only through $\frac{X_1}{X_n},\cdots,\frac{X_{...

I'm preparing a presentation about parallel statistics. I plan to illustrate the formulas for distributed computation of the mean and variance with examples involving center of gravity and moment of ...

I am trying to account for spatial autocorrelation in a linear mixed-effects model in R with measurements repeated in time. BodyMass has been collected once per <...

I'm trying to estimate CoVaR using bivariate DCC GARCH in R. The concept of CoVaR is the dependence adjusted of VaR, which was first introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011). However, this ...

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: ...

Suppose that, for every state $s$, there is a set of actions $\mathcal{A}(s)$ that can be chosen in that state. Let $Q(s, a)$ denote the expected utility of choosing action $a \in \mathcal{A}(s)$ in ...

I have a dataset consisting of 4 classes and around 200 features. I have implemented a Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier. I want now calculate the importance of each feature for each pair of classes ...

I am using the Mann-Kendall test to assess trends in a data time-series. I believe there is autocorrelation in my data and therefore need to use a block bootstrap to correct for it. I have plotted ...

I have discussed this issue several times in this site, but I am asking it again for a final justification from the experts of our community. I wanted to extract four factors (I should call dimensions ...

Sticking to a pure Bayesian approach to statistics with proper priors most of the time leads to admissible estimators. Nevertheless there is good reason to use Empirical Bayes in many cases, and the ...

I am modelling invertebrate.biomass ~ habitat.type * calendar.day + habitat.type * calendar.day ^ 2, with a random intercept of transect.id (50 transects were repeated 5 times) My response is zero-...

I'm currently working on asymptotic properties of penalized regression. I've read a myriad of papers by now, but there is an essential issue that I cannot get my head around. To keep things simple, I'...

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 ...

I have a multivariate dataset that changes over time. I have extracted (and normalised) some features and used k-means to generate clusters over the entire span of the dataset. Now I want to see ...

I am working with some survey data that uses probability weights. A number of sources explain that likelihood-based tests and fit statistics like likelihood-ratio, AIC, and BIC are not valid in the ...

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 ...

In "3 Things That Bother Me" (1988), Ed Leamer writes: Bootstrap estimates of standard errors are based on the assumption that the observed sample is the same as the true distribution, ...

I am interested in estimation of ARMA models. I understand that a popular approach is to write the model down in the state space form and then maximize the likelihood of the model using some ...

I'm pretty new to regression analysis, and I'm using python's statsmodels to look at the relationship between GDP/health/social services spending and health outcomes (DALYs) across the OECD. Just to ...

Full disclosure: I am not a statistician, nor do I claim to be one. I am a lowly IT administrator. Please play gentle with me. :) I am responsible for collecting and forecasting disk storage use ...

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 ...

Consider logistic regression. We have the logistic loss function, $\phi: R\rightarrow [0,1], \phi(u)=\log(1+\exp(-u))$, which is Lipschitz, and we have the linear function class $F=\{f_w:R^d \...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

For independent random variables $ x_1,..,x_n$ and $y_1,...,y_n$ following normal distribution $N(0,1)$, I need a simple estimate formula for $P(| \sum_1^n x_iy_i | \leq nt ) \leq e^{(?)}$ for $t>...

I made a model using repeated measures univariate ANOVA in R. ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am reading a Springer title from 1997 called Applied Generalized Linear Models by James K. Lindsey. In the preface, Lindsey writes For this text, the reader is assumed to have knowledge of basic ...

I am training a model and the accuracy increases in both the training and validation sets. I am using a pre-trained model as my dataset is very small. I am not sure why the loss increases in the ...

I know that zero-inflated models (e.g. zero-inflated Poisson or negative binomial models) can be used for dependent variables. I also know that in general there are no assumptions for the independent ...

I want to use CNN architectures for classification of multivariate time-series, where we apply one label to each sequence. I searched the net for the available designs in the literature and i found ...

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 ...

I was wondering if it might be possible to generate 2 correlated $Beta$ random variables? In other words, I want to generate two Beta random variables which can be said to have come from two Beta ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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-...

I am new to gam, and most of my knowledge comes from this document http://www3.nd.edu/~mclark19/learn/GAMS.pdf. Now I am using generalized addictive model with random effects to model some data, where ...

I have several intermittent data. Based on those data, I would like to compare several forecasting methods (Exponential Smoothing, Moving Average, Croston, and Syntetos-Boylan), and decide whether ...