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38 Variance of $K$-fold cross-validation estimates as $f(K)$: what is the role of "stability"? May 20 '17
38 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in layman terms Aug 20 '14
37 Confused about independent probabilities. If a fair coin is flipped 5 times, P(HHHHH) = 0.03125, but P(H | HHHH) = 0.5 Jun 16 '20
37 What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics? Jul 10 '20
35 Big disagreement in the slope estimate when groups are treated as random vs. fixed in a mixed model Aug 9 '13
27 Why is the marginal distribution/marginal probability described as "marginal"? May 15 '19
26 Why maximum likelihood and not expected likelihood? Apr 1 '14
25 Why does treatment coding result in a correlation between random slope and intercept? Apr 19 '18
25 Showing that 100 measurements for 5 subjects provide much less information than 5 measurements for 100 subjects Jul 31 '17
22 Latent variable interpretation of generalized linear models (GLMs) Sep 23 '16
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