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Quantitative ecologist and biostatistician, occasionally dabbling in other fields. As Tukey said, "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard".

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Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why?
Mar 11, 2018
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FPR (false positive rate) vs FDR (false discovery rate)
Apr 12, 2018
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A smaller dataset is better: Is this statement false in statistics? How to refute it properly?
Apr 10, 2020
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Extrapolation v. Interpolation
Jul 23, 2019
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Are mixed models useful as predictive models?
Jul 7, 2017
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Is my model any good, based on the diagnostic metric ($R^2$/ AUC/ accuracy/ RMSE etc.) value?
Jun 23, 2019
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Can I use 'mean ± SD' for non-negative data when SD is higher than mean?
May 8, 2023
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What are the branches of statistics?
Oct 7, 2019
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Is my model any good, based on the diagnostic metric ($R^2$/ AUC/ accuracy/ RMSE etc.) value?
Jun 23, 2019
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Multicollinearity and predictive performance
Aug 10, 2018

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How can I find questions that are easy enough so that I can answer them?
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Profusion of threads on imbalanced data - can we merge/deem canonical any?
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3-vote close - how's it going?
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FYI: A second apology from SE has been posted
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Is a quick-and-dirty answer better than no answer?