I’ve been experimenting with techniques for robust regression, and I thought that it would be a fun excercise to implement a robust variant of the simple linear regression model based on the t-distribution.
The term “outlier” is used very … Read more
Comments closedI recently collaborated on a meta-analysis investigating the effects of blast-related (i.e. *BOOM*) mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on cognitive performance (Karr, et al. 2014). Each of the eight included studies used control and mTBI groups, and reported means and … Read more
Comments closedMeta-analysis is, broadly, a set of statistical models for combining the results of several research studies in order to summarize the literature, or estimate an effect more precisely than can be done by a single study alone. The actual process … Read more
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