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Jake Westfall
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Former quantitative psychologist now working in data science/analytics.

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Variance of $K$-fold cross-validation estimates as $f(K)$: what is the role of "stability"?
May 20, 2017
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in layman terms
Aug 20, 2014
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What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics?
Jul 10, 2020
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Confused about independent probabilities. If a fair coin is flipped 5 times, P(HHHHH) = 0.03125, but P(H | HHHH) = 0.5
Jun 16, 2020
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Big disagreement in the slope estimate when groups are treated as random vs. fixed in a mixed model
Aug 9, 2013
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Why is the marginal distribution/marginal probability described as "marginal"?
May 15, 2019
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Why maximum likelihood and not expected likelihood?
Apr 1, 2014
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Showing that 100 measurements for 5 subjects provide much less information than 5 measurements for 100 subjects
Jul 31, 2017
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Why does treatment coding result in a correlation between random slope and intercept?
Apr 19, 2018
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Latent variable interpretation of generalized linear models (GLMs)
Sep 23, 2016
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Clarifying the [sem] tag for simultaneous equation models?
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Soliciting pre-submission manuscript comments from people who could later be peer reviewers
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How to create a ribbon plot?
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What stimulus features determine the psychophysical power law exponent?
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What is the name of the cognitive bias where an expert overestimates the knowledge of others?
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Difference between XGBRegressor and XGBClassifier

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