Confidence Help
I am trying to make some observations from a data set of independent and dependent variables. Using its S and AD Test statistic, the set of natural logarithms of the dependent variables has a P-value...
View Articleplacing data into which distribution?
Hello all, I have two sets of data, which are divided by a single category. I want to be able to place further observations into one of these distributions, and put a confidence level on which...
View Articlerandom variables - expected value of time taken to perform a service
Hello everyone, My name is Alex, I am from Spain and I need help. I am not trained in statistics and all I know is a little bit from school and reading wikipedia, so please bear with me if I do not...
View ArticlePrediction & Autocorrelation
I have a set of dependent variables which are serially correlated. I understand the confidence and prediction intervals are actually much broader than the calculated intervals. If I cannot eliminate...
View Articlebootstrap theory reference?
I am curious about bootstrap methods, and just read the very elementary explanation of them here: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips5e/conte...df/moore14.pdf It is very interesting to read, but leaves me...
View ArticleName for the expression E(Y|X)*Prob(X)
I am working with a term which is an expectation conditional on an event, multiplied by the probability of the event occuring. For example, the term might be int_{-inf}^0 x f(x). Obviously this is not...
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Solving for a RV as a function of iid RVs
Hi folks, I'm not a probability theory guy (economics PhD student), but I've recently gotten interested in networks and I've set up a model that I have no idea how to solve. I'm trying to maximize for...
View Articledistributions of Markov Chain
Hello!I am very confused with the terms initial distribution,limiting distribution and stationary distribution of a Markov Chain. Is initial distribution the same as limiting distribution? Can someone...
View ArticleUgh...tell me I'm reading this wrong...
Hi Everyone, New here! I had a question around the wording of a problem, as I wrap my head around it... t-distribution problem, and the wording of "significantly" specifically. I've stated the...
View ArticleConvergence rate of Bates distribution to Normal distribution
Hello, I am working on an illustration of approximating one distribution with another. Specifically, I am approximating a sample mean of N i.i.d. random variables X_i on a bounded domain [0,1] with a...
View ArticleProving of probability
Hello! I'm new to this site, so I hope this is the right category to post my question. So here's the deal: in class we get almost only theory, very little practice and formulas. Still, we have homework...
View ArticlePseudo-observations
Hi, I need help in understand what pseudo-observations actually are, (what transformation have they taken) and I need to know about the independance. I have calculated an independance test on R, but am...
View ArticleDefining a problem with random variables.
I am studying the following problem. Take n random normal distributions each with a common standard deviation of s. Call these d(1), d(2)...d(n). Let the means of these distributions be m(1)...
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