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What exactly is a Bayesian model?

asked Dec 14, 2014 at 4:02

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7 answers

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Inference vs. estimation?

asked Jan 1, 2015 at 8:12

32 votes

2 answers

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How to understand "nonlinear" as in "nonlinear dimensionality reduction"?

asked Nov 18, 2014 at 14:57

17 votes

1 answer

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Is the machine learning community abusing "conditioned on" and "parametrized by"?

asked Jan 1, 2015 at 9:17

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1 answer

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Is PCA still done via the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix when dimensionality is larger than the number of observations?

asked Apr 23, 2015 at 6:04

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Overall p-value and pairwise p-values?

asked Jun 9, 2015 at 9:17

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3 answers

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What is this bias-variance tradeoff for regression coefficients and how to derive it?

asked Sep 28, 2015 at 7:28

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1 answer

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What exactly is a hyperparameter?

asked Jan 12, 2015 at 4:01

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2 answers

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Sum of Gaussian is Gaussian?

asked Nov 28, 2014 at 8:26

7 votes

1 answer

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How to "regress out" some variables? [duplicate]

asked Oct 4, 2014 at 10:46

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4 answers

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Test if two coefficients are statistically different in logistic regression?

asked May 11, 2015 at 3:42

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1 answer

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Two broad categories of dimensionality reduction: with and without an explicit mapping function

asked Mar 23, 2015 at 7:59

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4 answers

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Comparing (hidden) regression coefficients in simple linear regression?

asked Mar 31, 2015 at 6:40

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1 answer

650 views

Trajectory Clustering: Which Clustering Method?

asked Sep 16, 2013 at 5:22

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Draw a multinomial distribution from a Dirichlet distribution?

asked Sep 22, 2014 at 14:00

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Clustering given pairwise distances with unknown cluster number?

asked Sep 20, 2013 at 5:54

5 votes

1 answer

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Overall $p$-value for a multiple linear regression (in MATLAB)?

asked Mar 9, 2015 at 11:13

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1 answer

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Why does the linear test statistic of GLM follow F-distribution?

asked Jun 14, 2015 at 7:39

4 votes

2 answers

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Bias in the MLE of variance component in a multivariate Gaussian?

asked Aug 17, 2015 at 15:00

4 votes

3 answers

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Mutual information for two soft clustering results?

asked Dec 22, 2014 at 12:33

4 votes

1 answer

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Visualizing data points with mixed membership?

asked Feb 4, 2015 at 6:28

3 votes

1 answer

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Compute log likelihood of data after fitting the GLM?

asked Jun 9, 2015 at 5:44

3 votes

2 answers

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ML & AI - Algorithm recommendation for "optimization by tuning parameters"?

asked Jun 1, 2014 at 22:21

3 votes

2 answers

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How to understand the "arriving rate" in a homogeneous Poisson process?

asked Nov 22, 2014 at 7:17

2 votes

2 answers

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Verify the regression results by GLM?

asked Dec 3, 2014 at 6:31

2 votes

1 answer

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Make sense of contrast in general linear model (GLM)?

asked Sep 30, 2014 at 10:37

2 votes

1 answer

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Cluster "by part" instead of "as a whole"?

asked Oct 6, 2013 at 8:56

2 votes

1 answer

2k views

Multinomial logistic regression vs. generalized linear model?

asked Jun 15, 2015 at 11:38

2 votes

1 answer

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Standard error computed by MATLAB multcompare?

asked Jul 5, 2015 at 1:58

2 votes

1 answer

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Does PCA of high-dimensional data yield inaccurate reconstruction?

asked Apr 23, 2015 at 14:41

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40 Questions

What exactly is a Bayesian model?

Inference vs. estimation?

How to understand "nonlinear" as in "nonlinear dimensionality reduction"?

Is the machine learning community abusing "conditioned on" and "parametrized by"?

Is PCA still done via the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix when dimensionality is larger than the number of observations?

Overall p-value and pairwise p-values?

What is this bias-variance tradeoff for regression coefficients and how to derive it?

What exactly is a hyperparameter?

Sum of Gaussian is Gaussian?

How to "regress out" some variables? [duplicate]

Test if two coefficients are statistically different in logistic regression?

Two broad categories of dimensionality reduction: with and without an explicit mapping function

Comparing (hidden) regression coefficients in simple linear regression?

Trajectory Clustering: Which Clustering Method?

Draw a multinomial distribution from a Dirichlet distribution?

Clustering given pairwise distances with unknown cluster number?

Overall $p$-value for a multiple linear regression (in MATLAB)?

Why does the linear test statistic of GLM follow F-distribution?

Bias in the MLE of variance component in a multivariate Gaussian?

Mutual information for two soft clustering results?

Visualizing data points with mixed membership?

Compute log likelihood of data after fitting the GLM?

ML & AI - Algorithm recommendation for "optimization by tuning parameters"?

How to understand the "arriving rate" in a homogeneous Poisson process?

Verify the regression results by GLM?

Make sense of contrast in general linear model (GLM)?

Cluster "by part" instead of "as a whole"?

Multinomial logistic regression vs. generalized linear model?

Standard error computed by MATLAB multcompare?

Does PCA of high-dimensional data yield inaccurate reconstruction?