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Hi guys, I'm currently studying the mutual information (MI) applied in classification techniques. Could anyone here share with me on how to make a calculation which applied in simple dataset?...
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I have a sample X1, X2,..., Xn that drawn from uniformly distributed population. The sample drawn without replacement. Since it depends each other (which is not i.i.d), the joint pdf is not the...
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I am working on an assignment by using the General Least Squares to fit a straight line. I got some information from this Book: ADJUSTMENT COMPUTATION_SPATIAL ANALYSIS. However, in all...
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Hello, The PDF P(r,t) of finding a pair of particles at a given separation r at a later time t is known. Also, the PDF P(k,r) of finding this pair at a given rotation k when it reaches a given...
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If we have (n) independent events with probability P1, P2, .... Pn, what is the probability of the union of events (1, 2, .... n) ? is their a closed form expression for the same ? We all know the...
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For example, I want to use partial correlation analysis to calculate the "pure correlation" between X and Y, but I don't know how to select control variables Z. Dose Z must have linear...
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In random matrix theory, Let $A$ be a random $n \times n$ matrix whose entries i.i.d with expectation 0 and variance 1, let F be the LSD of $A$ , $F$ will be uniform distribution over the unit...
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In probability theory, a purely stochastic system is one whose state is non-deterministic (i.e., "random") so that the subsequent state of the system is determined probabilistically. Any system or...
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My research about Age-Period-Cohort models that is assumed binomial distribution. In this model, there is relationship which connects the three factors, cohort=periode-age(c=p-a).There are...
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In the application of the Central Limit Theorem to sampling statistics, the key assumptions are that the samples are independent and identically distributed. How do you justify these assumptions...
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I have a covariance matrix and a set of another covariance matrices. I need some similarity measure which chooses the most similar cov. matrix to the current one. If you have any suggestions,...
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