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How do I study the "correlation" between a continuous variable and a categorical variable?

r correlation categorical-data association-measure

answered May 30, 2012 at 19:14

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Determine accuracy of model which estimates probability of event

predictive-models scoring-rules

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 20:02

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What machine learning algorithm can be used to predict the stock market?

machine-learning finance

answered Jan 20, 2012 at 16:45

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Advantages of ROC curves

machine-learning roc

answered May 18, 2012 at 16:14

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Detecting a given face in a database of facial images

machine-learning clustering image-processing

answered Feb 15, 2011 at 2:52

11 votes

Do you reject the null hypothesis when $p < \alpha$ or $p \leq \alpha$?

hypothesis-testing statistical-significance definition

answered May 25, 2012 at 16:31

10 votes

How do betting houses determine betting odds for sports?

probability stochastic-processes

answered Jun 6, 2012 at 1:34

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Calculating mutual Information

machine-learning information-theory mutual-information

answered Dec 2, 2011 at 15:11

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Recognizing relationship/pattern

pattern-recognition

answered Jan 13, 2012 at 23:40

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The prestige magician paradox

probability

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 15:10

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Methods for evaluating predictive models in two-outcome systems

probability predictive-models

answered Jan 24, 2013 at 15:09

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Is winning a soccer match independent of previous wins\losses?

probability stochastic-processes independence

answered Feb 28, 2013 at 5:07

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Advanced procedures using the Median statistic

median model

answered Oct 24, 2012 at 17:04

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Is there a Project Euler-alike for machine learning?

teaching

answered Feb 11, 2012 at 13:49

5 votes

Classification model for movie rating prediction

classification cart

answered Nov 22, 2011 at 15:23

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How to calculate precision and recall when some of the test data remains unclassified

machine-learning classification

answered Jul 23, 2012 at 15:31

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Open source Java library for statistics at the level offered by a graduate statistics course

r sas java

answered Sep 19, 2012 at 15:41

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Predicting the outcome of the next coin toss?

distributions iid

answered Nov 27, 2012 at 20:13

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Which one is the null hypothesis? Conflict between science theory, logic and statistics?

hypothesis-testing philosophical

answered Aug 3, 2011 at 14:46

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Checking whether accuracy improvement is significant

statistical-significance classification

answered Apr 19, 2012 at 19:02

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How to simulate head to head competition based on winning percentages?

simulation

answered Apr 22, 2012 at 18:05

2 votes

How to evaluate quality of probability estimator for Bernoulli experiments?

probability estimation

answered May 13, 2012 at 0:36

2 votes

How to distribute a prize among a group of people given their scores?

proportion ranking

answered Jan 12, 2012 at 16:46

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Measuring Regression to the Mean in Hitting Home Runs

r regression modeling

answered Jan 21, 2011 at 15:32

2 votes

Making sense out of statistics theory and applications

mathematical-statistics bioinformatics computational-statistics

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 18:24

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Benchmark datasets for detecting clusters, patterns and formulate/validate hypothesis?

hypothesis-testing clustering references data-mining dataset

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 14:46

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Binomial Probability Question

probability binomial-distribution

answered Feb 11, 2011 at 3:47

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Bounding mutual information given bounds on pointwise mutual information

entropy mutual-information information-theory

answered Jun 24, 2011 at 19:39

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Testing "closeness of data"

hypothesis-testing

answered Jul 26, 2011 at 15:50

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Can the mutual information of a "cell" be negative?

mutual-information information-theory probability

answered Dec 22, 2010 at 17:16

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How do I study the "correlation" between a continuous variable and a categorical variable?

Determine accuracy of model which estimates probability of event

What machine learning algorithm can be used to predict the stock market?

Advantages of ROC curves

Detecting a given face in a database of facial images

Do you reject the null hypothesis when $p < \alpha$ or $p \leq \alpha$?

How do betting houses determine betting odds for sports?

Calculating mutual Information

Recognizing relationship/pattern

The prestige magician paradox

Methods for evaluating predictive models in two-outcome systems

Is winning a soccer match independent of previous wins\losses?

Advanced procedures using the Median statistic

Is there a Project Euler-alike for machine learning?

Classification model for movie rating prediction

How to calculate precision and recall when some of the test data remains unclassified

Open source Java library for statistics at the level offered by a graduate statistics course

Predicting the outcome of the next coin toss?

Which one is the null hypothesis? Conflict between science theory, logic and statistics?

Checking whether accuracy improvement is significant

How to simulate head to head competition based on winning percentages?

How to evaluate quality of probability estimator for Bernoulli experiments?

How to distribute a prize among a group of people given their scores?

Measuring Regression to the Mean in Hitting Home Runs

Making sense out of statistics theory and applications

Benchmark datasets for detecting clusters, patterns and formulate/validate hypothesis?

Binomial Probability Question

Bounding mutual information given bounds on pointwise mutual information

Testing "closeness of data"

Can the mutual information of a "cell" be negative?