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dsimcha

Member for 12 years, 8 months
Last seen more than 5 years ago

Maryland

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ROC vs precision-and-recall curves

answered Feb 14, 2011 at 18:11

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The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning?

answered Feb 14, 2011 at 22:09

79 votes

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What do you call an average that does not include outliers?

answered Feb 2, 2009 at 14:24

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Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?

answered Sep 18, 2010 at 2:32

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Why would all the tests for normality reject the null hypothesis?

answered Oct 6, 2011 at 18:27

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What skills are required to perform large scale statistical analyses?

answered Mar 6, 2011 at 21:38

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Testing statistical software

answered Feb 24, 2011 at 14:15

7 votes

If the t-test and the ANOVA for two groups are equivalent, why aren't their assumptions equivalent?

answered Feb 4, 2011 at 1:29

6 votes

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Computing chi-square for large tables with some expected cell counts equal to zero

answered Feb 21, 2011 at 2:54

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When conducting a t-test why would one prefer to assume (or test for) equal variances rather than always use a Welch approximation of the df?

answered Sep 21, 2010 at 1:36

3 votes

Big-O Scaling of R's cmdscale()

answered May 17, 2011 at 18:24

2 votes

Is it possible to prove a null hypothesis?

answered Feb 10, 2011 at 15:29

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GLMNET or LARS for computing LASSO solutions?

answered Feb 10, 2011 at 19:19

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What are disadvantages of using the lasso for variable selection for regression?

answered Mar 7, 2011 at 0:38