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Does a boxplot assume interval data?
Awarded Nov 30 at 6:50
Invariance property of MLE: what is the MLE of $\theta^2$ of normal, $\bar{X}^2$?
Awarded Nov 28 at 23:31
Why isn't this sum normal?
Awarded Nov 22 at 0:28
Linear model with log-transformed response vs. generalized linear model with log link
Awarded Nov 2 at 14:23
Difference between Random Forests and Decision tree
Awarded Nov 1 at 8:33
Regular conditional distribution vs conditional distribution
Awarded Oct 21 at 11:05
T-test for non normal when N>50?
Awarded Oct 20 at 7:30
What is the connection between partial least squares, reduced rank regression, and principal component regression?
Awarded Oct 16 at 4:40
Why are the Least-Squares and Maximum-Likelihood methods of regression not equivalent when the errors are not normally distributed?
Awarded Oct 4 at 4:26
A national poll of 1000 French returns 25% of "Yes". Is it enough to say that it's quite impossible locally to be 0%, if we don't know the variance?
Awarded Sep 30 at 20:42
Ethical concerns about using Bayesian
Awarded Sep 30 at 16:21
How are PQL, REML, ML, Laplace, Gauss-Hermite related to each other?
Awarded Sep 25 at 11:19
How to tell author that post hoc data manipulation is not okay
Awarded Sep 15 at 16:55
Is multicollinearity really a problem?
Awarded Sep 15 at 4:49
Is p-value a point estimate?
Awarded Sep 12 at 15:35
Why are probability distributions denoted with a tilde?
Awarded Sep 9 at 9:25
Why doesn't Random Forest handle missing values in predictors?
Awarded Aug 30 at 10:49
What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics?
Awarded Aug 28 at 11:17
Where does the misconception that Y must be normally distributed come from?
Awarded Aug 17 at 3:56
Likelihood ratio vs. score vs. Wald test: Different p values, which to use?
Awarded Aug 13 at 5:17
Hold-out validation vs. cross-validation
Awarded Aug 10 at 18:02
Formulating quantile regression as Linear Programming problem?
Awarded Aug 9 at 20:20
Detecting outliers using standard deviations
Awarded Aug 5 at 22:15
R: geom_density values in y-axis
Awarded Aug 4 at 21:18
Does the Gibbs Sampling algorithm guarantee detailed balance?
Awarded Aug 3 at 13:55
Causal effect by back-door and front-door adjustments
Awarded Jul 29 at 16:31
If the Epanechnikov kernel is theoretically optimal when doing Kernel Density Estimation, why isn't it more commonly used?
Awarded Jul 20 at 17:55
Data "exploration" vs data "snooping"/"torturing"?
Awarded Jul 19 at 21:09
Why f beta score define beta like that?
Awarded Jul 16 at 11:52
Rule of thumb for number of bootstrap samples
Awarded Jul 9 at 10:39
What regression model is the most appropriate to use with count data?
Awarded Jul 9 at 8:20
Why are symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices so important?
Awarded Jun 30 at 13:37
Do we reject null if we have a pvalue of 0.0503 at alpha = 0.05? What way to validate the rejection, if ever?
Awarded Jun 26 at 21:37
What is the minimum recommended number of groups for a random effects factor?
Awarded Jun 12 at 13:04
Is a neural network essential for deep learning?
Awarded Jun 5 at 18:32
Spatial statistics models: CAR vs SAR
Awarded Jun 2 at 16:20
How should I intuitively understand the KL divergence loss in variational autoencoders?
Awarded May 31 at 14:35
What important ideas have there been since McCullagh and Nelder's "Generalized Linear Models" (first published 1983)?
Awarded May 29 at 8:53
Extreme Value Theory - Show: Normal to Gumbel
Awarded May 29 at 0:02
Intuitive explanation for dividing by $n-1$ when calculating standard deviation?
Awarded May 26 at 19:06
What are Hommel Hochberg corrections?
Awarded May 6 at 11:21
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
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