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Refers to a general estimation technique that selects the parameter value to minimize the squared difference between two quantities, such as the observed value of a variable, and the expected value of that observation conditioned on the parameter value. Gaussian linear models are fit by least squares and least squares is the idea underlying the use of mean-squared-error (MSE) as a way of evaluating an estimator.

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Calculating group-level mean with varying group sizes for micro-macro data structure

My study is designed in such a way that I have individuals with varying numbers of observations of the predictors, but only one observation of the outcome. Like a multilevel model, but with the outcom …
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