Cross Validated
Profile Activity
Meta user
Network profile
11,209
reputation
2
44
93

Jake Westfall

Former quantitative psychologist now working in data science/analytics.

114
answers
6
questions
~448k
people reached

Communities (8)

Top Meta Posts
0
1

Top network posts

Top tags (148)

Score 300
Posts 33
Posts % 28
Score 225
Posts 34
Score 204
Posts 24
Score 115
Posts 10
Score 81
Posts 10
Score 71
Posts 8
View all tags →

Top posts (120)

All Questions Answers
Votes Newest
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 Showing that 100 measurements for 5 subjects provide much less information than 5 measurements for 100 subjects Jul 31 '17
24 Why does treatment coding result in a correlation between random slope and intercept? Apr 19 '18
22 Latent variable interpretation of generalized linear models (GLMs) Sep 23 '16
View all questions and answers →

Badges (139)

Gold

2

Rarest

Silver

44

Rarest

Bronze

93

Rarest

View all badges →

Your privacy

By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.