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Dependence through an unknown parameter?
Consider an urn from which we sample with replacement. Let $\pi$ represent the proportion of the urn's balls that are black, with the remainder being white.
From a frequentist perspective, each ...
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Conditional likelihood, conditional independence and joint independence
Consider a sequence of data samples generated from $n$ independent random vectors $(X_1, Y_1), (X_2,Y_2), (X_3,Y_3) ...$
$$D = (x_1,y_1), (x_2,y_2), (x_3,y_3) ...$$
Where $(X_i, Y_i)$ - is a random ...
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Conditional Independence: Equivalent Conditions
Let $X_1$ and $X_2$ be random variables, and $R(X_1)$ be a function of $X_1$. Here are two statements:
(a) $X_1\perp\!\!\!\!\perp (X_2, Y) \mid R(X_1) $
(b) $X_1\perp\!\!\!\!\perp Y \mid \{R(X_1),X_2\}...
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Borel-Cantelli lemma on conditional probabilities
In a probability space $\big( \Omega, \mathcal{F}, P \big)$, suppose $\{E_n\}_{n\in \mathbb{N}} \subseteq \mathcal{F}$ is a sequence of mutually independent events. By Borel-Cantelli Lemma, the ...
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Undirected graphs and implications of independence (Wasserman chapter 18)
In Wasserman's All of Statistics chapter 18, he defines the following undirected graph:
Let $V$ be a set of random variables with distribution $\mathbb{P}$. Construct a graph with one vertex for each ...
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Join distribution of independent random variables that aren't conditionally independent
I am asked to give an example for a joint distribution of three random variables, $U$, $V$ and $W$, where $U$ and $V$ are (unconditionally) independent but are NOT conditionally independent given $W$.
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A and B are independent. Does P(A ∩ B|C) = P(A|C) · P(B|C) hold?
Let $C$, $B$, and $A$ be events in the same probability space, such that $A$ and $B$ are independent and
$P(A \cap C) > 0$, $P(B \cap C) > 0$.
Prove or disprove:
$P(A \cap B|C) = P(A|C)P(B|C).$
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ANOVA with variables with known (but arbitrary) conditional dependencies
I have a dataset with the following properties:
k > 2 groups
normally distributed
differing variance and sample size between groups
non-independent samples within each group
continuous variable
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Testing for conditional independence with nonlinear relationships
I am reading about the IC and IC* (Inductive Causation) algorithms for discovering DAGs from observations. The first step of the algorithm is for each pair of variables a and b, search for a set of ...
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Conditional independence statements for probabilistic motivation for linear regression
So the motivation for using the squared loss in linear regression can be written as the following (I think):
Assume $\{(\mathbf{x}_i, y_i) \mid i = 1, \dots n\}$ are repeated independent samples from ...
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Does this independence property hold?
Let $x \sim N(\mu_x,\Sigma_x)$ and $v \sim N(0,\Sigma_v)$ be independent multivariate Gaussian random vectors, and let $$y = Ax + v$$ for some square matrix $A$ such that $y \sim N(A\mu_x, A\Sigma_xA^...
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Is treatment conditionally independent from outcome in Single Experiment Design?
I'm reading this slides.
At slide 10 there is written that in "Single Experiment Design" we assume "Randomization of treatment", that is:
$ \{ Y_i(t,m),M_i(t') \} \perp T_i \lvert ...
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What does it mean for tests to be independent?
When reading about cumulation if type-1 Error, the sentence "for independent statistical tests" occures alot, now I was wondering what this is actually means.
Since tests are also random ...
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Is A independent of B conditioned on B?
Does $A \perp\!\!\!\!\!\!\perp B | B$ always hold?
Part of me is like yes: if we know the value of $B$, then more information about $B$ can't tell us anything about $A$, and vice versa.
Consider this ...
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Informative Censoring vs. Random Censoring vs. Conditionally Independent Censoring
Let us consider the case of survival analysis with one event. Let $X$ represent a set of covariates about each unit. Let $T_E$ be the (latent) event time of the unit, let $T_C$ be the (latent) ...
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