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What are Hommel Hochberg corrections?
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What's the point of asymptotics?
Awarded May 4 at 6:37
If $X$ is normally distributed, can $\log(X)$ also be normally distributed?
Awarded May 1 at 6:42
How to calculate Zipf's law coefficient from a set of top frequencies?
Awarded Apr 30 at 20:58
Covariance of a variable and a linear combination of other variables
Awarded Apr 30 at 17:55
Difference in Probability Measure vs. Probability Distribution
Awarded Apr 29 at 0:07
What is the intuition behind SVD?
Awarded Apr 28 at 18:51
Berry inversion
Awarded Apr 28 at 0:37
Sum of exponential random variables follows Gamma, confused by the parameters
Awarded Apr 27 at 20:21
Real meaning of confidence ellipse
Awarded Apr 16 at 5:43
Is it appropriate to use "time" as a causal variable in a DAG?
Awarded Apr 15 at 16:51
Is there any good reason to use PCA instead of EFA? Also, can PCA be a substitute for factor analysis?
Awarded Apr 8 at 20:05
What does "a.s." stand for?
Awarded Apr 8 at 18:54
Let X,Y be 2 r.v. with infinite expectations, are there possibilities where min(X,Y) have finite expectation?
Awarded Apr 2 at 23:09
Is there any difference between Sensitivity and Recall?
Awarded Mar 28 at 11:20
Should final (production ready) model be trained on complete data or just on training set?
Awarded Mar 25 at 18:21
Two envelope problem revisited
Awarded Mar 25 at 0:33
Formula for weighted simple linear regression
Awarded Mar 21 at 22:36
Why is Entropy maximised when the probability distribution is uniform?
Awarded Mar 21 at 2:20
What is a full conditional probability?
Awarded Mar 15 at 21:30
"Moderation" versus "interaction"?
Awarded Mar 13 at 19:56
Prediction and Tolerance Intervals
Awarded Mar 10 at 12:00
Jeffreys prior for binomial likelihood
Awarded Mar 5 at 15:48
What is the intuition behind conditional Gaussian distributions?
Awarded Mar 4 at 22:32
How to make a time series stationary?
Awarded Mar 4 at 20:33
Jenks Natural Breaks in Python: How to find the optimum number of breaks?
Awarded Mar 2 at 7:51
Finding minimum/maximum peaks in a n-modal distribution
Awarded Mar 1 at 23:49
Why am I getting information entropy greater than 1?
Awarded Feb 27 at 6:48
Difference in log base for cross entropy calcuation
Awarded Feb 26 at 20:08
Does the sign of scores or of loadings in PCA or FA have a meaning? May I reverse the sign?
Awarded Feb 26 at 18:42
What should be taught first: Probability or Statistics?
Awarded Feb 23 at 4:35
Difference between a SVM and a perceptron
Awarded Feb 22 at 11:04
Error bars on error bars?
Awarded Feb 16 at 21:10
Why isn't a confidence level of anything >50% "good enough"?
Awarded Feb 16 at 13:18
Bridge penalty vs. Elastic Net regularization
Awarded Feb 12 at 6:02
Representing interaction effects in directed acyclic graphs
Awarded Feb 11 at 13:01
kNN and unbalanced classes
Awarded Feb 7 at 12:08
What does "orthogonal" mean in the context of statistics?
Awarded Feb 2 at 18:26
Why is the normalisation constant in Bayesian not a marginal distribution
Awarded Jan 27 at 22:00
Splines vs Gaussian Process Regression
Awarded Jan 27 at 19:17
Relation between MAP, EM, and MLE
Awarded Jan 26 at 15:36
What are disadvantages of using the lasso for variable selection for regression?
Awarded Jan 22 at 3:25
How to choose between ROC AUC and F1 score?
Awarded Jan 15 at 20:12
In comparison with a standard gaussian random variable, does a distribution with heavy tails have higher kurtosis?
Awarded Jan 15 at 8:51
Why eigenvectors reveal the groups in Spectral Clustering
Awarded Jan 14 at 1:34
How robust is Pearson's correlation coefficient to violations of normality?
Awarded Jan 13 at 2:02
Famous statistical wins and horror stories for teaching purposes
Awarded Jan 12 at 11:07
Are bayesians slaves of the likelihood function?
Awarded Jan 9 at 17:57
Weakly informative prior distributions for scale parameters
Awarded Jan 4 at 1:35
Intuitive understanding of the difference between consistent and asymptotically unbiased
Awarded Jan 1 at 18:47
Why is best subset selection not favored in comparison to lasso?
Awarded Dec 23, 2024 at 20:49
Normalizations: dividing by mean
Awarded Dec 22, 2024 at 0:27
Is the second parameter for the normal distribution the variance or std deviation?
Awarded Dec 22, 2024 at 0:10
Correct equation for weighted unbiased sample covariance
Awarded Dec 15, 2024 at 14:49
Objective function, cost function, loss function: are they the same thing?
Awarded Dec 15, 2024 at 11:26
Why use stratified cross validation? Why does this not damage variance related benefit?
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 16:12
Why PCA of data by means of SVD of the data?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 18:41
Why is the normality of residuals "barely important at all" for the purpose of estimating the regression line?
Awarded Dec 9, 2024 at 23:51
Status of R Journal
Awarded Dec 8, 2024 at 12:06
How does the correlation coefficient differ from regression slope?
Awarded Dec 7, 2024 at 17:10
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