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Taylor

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510 Answers

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Which loss function is correct for logistic regression?

answered Dec 11, 2016 at 17:37

28 votes

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Softmax overflow

answered Sep 24, 2017 at 23:30

27 votes

From a statistical perspective: Fourier transform vs regression with Fourier basis

answered Jan 7, 2017 at 1:16

20 votes

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Why the sum of two absolutely-continuous random variables isn't necessarily absolutely continuous?

answered Jan 7, 2021 at 20:48

18 votes

Why is P(A,B|C)/P(B|C) = P(A|B,C)?

answered Jan 26, 2017 at 22:18

16 votes

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Cdf of minimum of two iid random variables

answered Jan 4, 2018 at 0:16

15 votes

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Estimation of AR($p$) model by `lm` versus `arima` in R: different results

answered Nov 1, 2017 at 15:54

12 votes

sampling/importance resampling - why resample?

answered Aug 9, 2016 at 22:32

11 votes

State space representation of ARMA(p,q) from Hamilton

answered Oct 10, 2017 at 1:12

11 votes

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Is the MAP the maximum value of the posterior or its mode?

answered Oct 16, 2017 at 18:12

11 votes

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Why are contours of a multivariate Gaussian distribution elliptical?

answered Feb 2, 2018 at 0:07

11 votes

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How to calculate the probability of a data point belonging to a multivariate normal distribution?

answered Mar 1, 2018 at 23:10

11 votes

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Why do some formulas have the coefficient in the front in logistic regression likelihood, and some don't?

answered Sep 8, 2017 at 17:57

10 votes

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Why are the cut-offs used for Bayes factors and p-values so different?

answered Apr 25, 2019 at 4:15

10 votes

Estimate the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence with Monte Carlo

answered May 24, 2017 at 5:30

9 votes

Variance of $X$ and Variance of $\log(X)$. How to relate them?

answered Jul 20, 2019 at 4:20

9 votes

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Acceptance-Rejection Method Acceptance Probability Proof

answered Sep 8, 2018 at 1:06

9 votes

Simulate AR(1) process in R with specified nonzero mean and AR coefficient

answered Sep 27, 2017 at 16:31

9 votes

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sequential/recursive/online calculation of sample covariance matrix

answered Oct 30, 2017 at 1:29

9 votes

What does it mean by independently and identically distributed random variables?

answered Dec 30, 2016 at 17:32

8 votes

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How do we know $X'X$ is nonsingular in OLS?

answered Sep 8, 2018 at 18:00

8 votes

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Show that $E\{ZΦ(Z)\} = 1 / \left( 2\sqrt{\pi} \right)$

answered Dec 2, 2016 at 15:51

8 votes

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Yule Walker equations of an ARMA(1,1)-process

answered May 7, 2017 at 19:29

8 votes

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Where is the dominated convergence theorem being used?

answered Apr 11, 2017 at 1:49

8 votes

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What is the difference between Markov chains and Markov processes?

answered Mar 4, 2017 at 18:21

8 votes

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Why do independent priors for two random variables not result in an independent joint posterior distribution?

answered Jun 26, 2017 at 0:26

7 votes

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Low effective sample size but good R-hat is this a problem?

answered Jul 18, 2019 at 20:23

7 votes

KL divergence between gaussian and uniform distribution

answered May 21, 2019 at 4:04

7 votes

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How to derive the form of the posterior for regression?

answered Jan 2, 2019 at 5:37

7 votes

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Importance Sampling

answered Dec 2, 2017 at 19:05

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