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The field of study concerning statistical methods that use space and spatial relationships (such as distance, area, volume, length, height, orientation, centrality and/or other spatial characteristics…
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a stochastic process modelling time series, which specifies the value of the series linearly in terms of the previous values.
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Modeling error (especially sampling error) instead of replicable and informative relationships among variables improves model fit statistics, but reduces parsimony, and worsens explanatory and predict…
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A discrete, univariate distribution modelling the number of ${\rm Bernoulli}(p)$ trial successes until a specified number of failures occur.
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"a measure of the strength of a phenomenon or a sample-based estimate of that quantity" [Wikipedia].
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one of a number of regression models for dependent variables that are counts (non-negative integers). A more general model is negative binomial regression. Both have numerous var…
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Receiver Operating Characteristic, also known as the ROC curve.
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A model for time series in which the conditional variance is time-varying and autocorrelated.
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A non-negative continuous probability distribution indexed by two strictly positive parameters.
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A multivariate, discrete probability distribution used to describe the results of a random experiment where each of $n$ outcomes are placed into one of $k$ nominal categories.
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The process of assessing whether the results of an analysis are likely to hold outside of the original research setting. DO NOT use this tag for discussing 'validity' of a measurement or instrument (s…
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The quantiles of a distribution refer to points on its cumulative distribution function. Some common quantiles are quartiles and percentiles.
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Usually refers to "z-standardization" which is shifting and rescaling data to assure they have zero mean and unit variance. Other "standardizations" are possible, too.
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The process of fiting some statistical model to a particular set of data. Mostly done on a computer, and using varied numerical methods such as optimization or numerical integration, or simulation.
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Joint probability distribution of several random variables gives the probability that all of them simultaneously lie in a particular region.
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the degree of closeness of the estimates to the true value. For a classifier, accuracy is the proportion of correct classifications. (This second usage is not good practice…
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a neural network architecture that contains recurrent NN blocks that can remember a value for an arbitrary length of time.
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The Wilcoxon rank sum test, also known as Mann-Whitney U test, is a non-parametric rank test to assess whether one of two samples has larger values than the other.
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The uniform distribution describes a random variable that is equally likely to take any value in its sample space.
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a statistical software package. Use this tag for any on-topic question that (a) involves SAS either as a critical part of the question or expected answer, & (b) is not just about how to use SA…
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The act of generating a sequence of numbers or symbols randomly, or (almost always) pseudo-randomly; i.e., with lack of any predictability or pattern.
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Seasonality refers to the recurring fluctuation around the mean of a time-series for a given period of time, usually a calendar year.
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the expectation of a random variable, given information on another variable or variables (mostly, by specifying their value).
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Questions that seek a conceptual or non-mathematical understanding of statistics.
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Vector Auto-Regression, a multivariate time-series model / method. Under VAR, each univariate time-series is a linear combination of its own previous values and the previous values of the other series…
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Asymptotic theory studies the properties of estimators and test statistics when the sample size approaches infinity.
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called continuous if its set of possible values is uncountable, and the chance that it takes any particular value is zero ($\text{P}(X = x) = 0$ for every real number $x$). A …
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Measure of distance between distributions or variables, such as Euclidean distance between points in n-space.
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A rule for calculating an estimate of a given quantity based on observed data [Wikipedia].
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A distribution describing the time between events in a Poisson process; a continuous analogue of the geometric distribution.
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Refers to a subset of data mining concerned with extracting information from data in the form of text by recognizing patterns. The goal of text mining is often to classify a given document into one of…
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For questions about the central limit theorem, which states: "Given certain conditions, the mean of a sufficiently large number of iterates of independent random variables, each with a well-defined me…
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A regularization method for regression models that shrinks coefficients towards zero.
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Cumulative distribution function. While the PDF gives the probability density of each value of a random variable, the CDF (often denoted $F(x)$) gives the probability that the random variable will be …
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the process of using domain knowledge of the data to create features for machine learning models. This tag is meant for both theoretical and practical questions regarding featur…
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