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Jeremy Miles

Santa Monica, CA

I work as a data scientist at Google.

Opinions and errors stated here are mine, not my employer's.

I've written (with others) a couple of books, including "Applying regression and correlation" and "Discoving statistics using R."

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Top Questions
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Why do reviews of articles often start with a summary of the article?

publications peer-review asked Apr 8, 2015 at 4:20
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What's wrong with (some) pseudo-randomization

experiment-design clinical-trials random-allocation asked Mar 27, 2013 at 16:20
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Why do the estimated values from a Best Linear Unbiased Predictor (BLUP) differ from a Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE)?

mixed-model blue blup smallareaestimation asked Oct 31, 2014 at 18:36
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17 votes

What is the formula to calculate the area under the ROC curve from a contingency table?

roc auc asked Oct 17, 2018 at 1:02
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Is it correct to refer to a negative correlation as an 'inverse correlation'?

correlation terminology asked Sep 19, 2015 at 22:46
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Increasing sample size to obtain width of CI / SE: p-hacking?

p-value statistical-power p-hacking asked Aug 23, 2021 at 18:15
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9 votes

Calculating I-squared (in meta-analysis, given tau-squared)

meta-analysis heterogeneity asked Aug 23, 2013 at 23:36
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Where can I drill a hole in my Ford key?

ford key asked Oct 16, 2014 at 22:18
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Simulation of Fisher's exact test is underestimating power

r power fishersexact asked Apr 9, 2013 at 20:02
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Which car rental companies do not charge for additional drivers (in London)?

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Top Answers
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Interpretation of p-value near alpha level
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How can a full professor from a developing country get a job in the United States?
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Is a research thesis (report) with zero contribution to human knowledge acceptable?
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Should student or supervisor be corresponding author for publications based on student research?
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How can I protect a course I created independently from being taken by the community college I substitute for, when I am about to teach it there?
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What is the difference between formative and reflective measurement models?
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Why are US PhDs different from European PhDs?
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Why do we need Bootstrapping?
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Magnitude of standardized coefficients (beta) in multiple linear regression
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use of weights in svyglm vs glm
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Has there ever been a paper written by three people with last names starting with the letter K?
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When does it make sense to send more inquiries asking about review progress to PLoS ONE?
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How to compute $\eta^2$ in ANOVA by hand?
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Why are over identified models preferred over just identified models in Structural Equation Modeling?
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Why can't I simulate variables with negative correlation? How can I fix it?
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How to interpret the model fit indices generated by lavaan (in R)? Something wrong with the model specifications?
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Confusion about interpreting log likelihood (and likelihood ratio test) output
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What is an intuitive definition/explanation of an intercept in SEM?
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EFA clearly supports one-factor, measure is internally consistent, but CFA has poor fit?
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What's the difference between a MIMIC factor and a composite with indicators (SEM)?
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Why is power analysis with logistic regression so liberal compared to chi squared?
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SEM: What is measurement model?
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Why Is Overfitting Bad in Machine Learning?
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What does it mean to correlate residuals in SEM?
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How would one obtain a random sample of pennies (from the U.S)?
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Does R have post hoc tests robust to unequal sample sizes/population variances?
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Standardized coefficients for linear models with numeric and factor variables in multiple linear regression using scale() function in R
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Paired samples t-test using a structural equation modeling approach
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Between-subjects effect becomes non-signicant after centering covariate. Should I center or not?
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Anonymous Student Feedback: Moving forward from abusive comments
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