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38 Variance of $K$-fold cross-validation estimates as $f(K)$: what is the role of “stability”? May 20 '17
36 Confused about independent probabilities. If a fair coin is flipped 5 times, P(HHHHH) = 0.03125, but P(H | HHHH) = 0.5 Jun 16
36 What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics? Jul 10
35 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in layman terms Aug 20 '14
33 Big disagreement in the slope estimate when groups are treated as random vs. fixed in a mixed model Aug 9 '13
26 Why maximum likelihood and not expected likelihood? Apr 1 '14
26 Why is the marginal distribution/marginal probability described as “marginal”? May 15 '19
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
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