User Michael McGowan - Cross Validated

Michael McGowan

Member for 12 years, 5 months
Last seen more than 1 year ago

West Chester, PA, United States

17 Questions

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69 votes

9 answers

15k views

How can I help ensure testing data does not leak into training data?

asked Dec 19, 2011 at 22:49

37 votes

5 answers

37k views

Are decision trees almost always binary trees?

asked Jun 21, 2011 at 21:29

31 votes

4 answers

79k views

Predicting with both continuous and categorical features

asked Apr 19, 2012 at 14:56

25 votes

3 answers

7k views

Visualizing the calibration of predicted probability of a model

asked Mar 29, 2012 at 14:52

18 votes

5 answers

1k views

Does this quantity related to independence have a name?

asked Jan 6, 2011 at 19:50

12 votes

2 answers

8k views

Predicting multiple targets or classes?

asked Jan 28, 2012 at 4:51

12 votes

2 answers

838 views

Domain-agnostic feature engineering that retains semantic meaning?

asked Feb 8, 2012 at 6:05

9 votes

1 answer

4k views

Bayesian inference for multinomial distribution with asymmetric prior knowledge?

asked Feb 9, 2011 at 14:22

6 votes

2 answers

371 views

Is there a generic term for measures of correctness like "precision" and "recall"?

asked Jul 20, 2011 at 16:06

4 votes

0 answers

82 views

How can I help ensure testing data does not leak into training data? [duplicate]

asked Feb 15, 2012 at 16:53

4 votes

1 answer

1k views

Are there terms to distinguish between the two types of outliers?

asked Feb 27, 2013 at 22:11

3 votes

2 answers

6k views

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

asked Dec 22, 2010 at 16:16

3 votes

1 answer

513 views

What is the association rule learning approach to the logical XOR problem?

asked Jun 14, 2011 at 19:33

2 votes

0 answers

1k views

Is it OK to do additive smoothing before applying Pearson's chi-square test for independence?

asked Apr 6, 2011 at 16:04

2 votes

2 answers

4k views

Does "x per y" always refer to the arithmetic mean?

asked Sep 15, 2011 at 21:55

2 votes

1 answer

175 views

Can I define an $R^2$-like measure in this way when predicting with exotic loss functions?

asked Oct 1, 2012 at 21:14

1 vote

1 answer

561 views

How can I better predict with (g)lmer with missing values?

asked Mar 15, 2019 at 6:17