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Thomas Lumley
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If we know A is independent of B, why isn't P(A|B,C) = P(A|C) necessarily true?
Oct 8, 2022
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Can mean be less than half of median if all numbers are non-negative?
Mar 26, 2022
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Which distribution has its maximum uniformly distributed?
Sep 3, 2020
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Intuition of Random Walk having a constant mean
Apr 29, 2021
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How can this counterintiutive result with the Mahalanobis distance be explained?
Jun 28, 2023
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What did statisticians use to quickly find p-values before applets were popularized in the late 2010s?
Oct 4, 2024
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Does Correlation "Sometimes" Imply Causality?
Oct 8, 2022
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Is the t-test miscalibrated in R?
Oct 22, 2022
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Is there a name for applying estimation at a lower level of aggregation, and is it necessarily problematic?
Nov 25, 2020
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In cluster analysis, how does Gaussian mixture model differ from K Means when we know the clusters are spherical?
Sep 28, 2020
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Get p-values from results of svyglm when using multiple imputations in R
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Story identification -- Pacific NW Tree Octopus
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Weighted linear regression in R with lm() and svyglm(). Same model, different results
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What does the summary function do to the output of regsubsets?
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How does the R Survey package compute bootstrap confidence intervals?