Chapter 3 - continued Chapter 3 sections

Chapter 3 - continued Chapter 3 sections ... We have the law of total probability for random variables (Theorem 3.6.3 in the book) We also have Bayes’ theorem for random variables (Theorem ... Chapter 3 - continued 3.7 Multivariate Distributions Multivariate Distributions - extension of bivariate ...

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Multivariable Calculus - Duke University

planes and trajectories. Chapter 5 uses the results of the three chapters preceding it to prove the Inverse Function Theorem, then the Implicit Function Theorem as a corollary, and finally the Lagrange Multiplier Criterion as a consequence of the Implicit Function Theorem. Lagrange multipliers help with a type of multivariable

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TIME SERIES MODELLING, INFERENCE AND …

TIME SERIES MODELLING, INFERENCE AND FORECASTING ... A time series process is a stochastic process or a collection of random variables yt indexed in time. Note that yt will be used throughoutthe book to denote a random variable or an actual realisation of the time series process at time t. We use the

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www2.stat.duke.edu

Ryan Tibshirani Data Mining: 36-462/36-662 January 22 2013 Optional reading: ESL 1410 . Information retrieval with the web information retrieval learned how to compute similarity Last time: scores (distances) of documents to a given query string But what if documents are webpages,

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Hypothesis Testing - Duke University

Null hypothesis: No difference in average fat lost in population for two methods. Population mean difference is zero. Alternative hypothesis: There is a difference in average fat lost in population for two methods. Population mean difference is not …

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General Bivariate Normal - Duke University

6.5 Conditional Distributions Multivariate Normal Distribution Matrix notation allows us to easily express the density of the multivariate normal distribution for an arbitrary number of dimensions. We express the k-dimensional multivariate normal distribution as follows, X ˘N k( ; There is a similar method for the multivariate normal ...

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GENE EXPRESSION - Duke University

classes of genes most clearly is the complexity of regulatory elements and factors necessary for the transcription of the mRNA genes. As stated before, transcription factors possess two essential properties - the ability to ... functional domains of a yeast transcription factor have been separated in two vectors. Sequences

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Tree Based Methods: Regression Trees

BasicsofDecision(Predictions)Trees I Thegeneralideaisthatwewillsegmentthepredictorspace intoanumberofsimpleregions. I Inordertomakeapredictionforagivenobservation,we ...

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Lecture 20 - Logistic Regression - Duke University

It seems clear that both age and gender have an e ect on someone’s survival, how do we come up with a model that will let us explore this relationship? Even if we set Died to 0 and Survived to 1, this isn’t something we can transform our way out of - we need something more. One way to think about the problem - we can treat Survived and Died as

Lecture 16 - Correlation and Regression - Duke University

Correlation Covariance and Correlation Guessing the correlation Which of the following is the best guess for the correlation between % in poverty and % HS grad? l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l 80 85 90 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 % HS grad % in poverty (a)0.6 (b)-0.75 (c)-0.1 (d)0.02 (e)-1.5 ...

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Two Proofs of the Central Limit Theorem

Two Proofs of the Central Limit Theorem Yuval Filmus January/February 2010 In this lecture, we describe two proofs of a central theorem of mathemat-ics, namely the central limit theorem. One will be using cumulants, and the other using moments. Actually, our proofs won’t be entirely formal, but we will explain how to make them formal.

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The Central Limit Theorem - WebAssign

The Central Limit Theorem tells you that as you increase the number of dice, the sample means (averages) tend toward a normal distribution (the sampling distribution). 7.2 The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Means (Averages)2 Suppose X is a random variable with a distribution that may be known or unknown (it can be any distri-

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The Central Limit Theorem - Main Concepts

Central limit theorem - proof For the proof below we will use the following theorem. Theorem: Let X nbe a random variable with moment generating function M Xn (t) and Xbe a random variable with moment generating function M X(t). If lim n!1 M Xn (t) = M X(t) then the distribution function (cdf) of X nconverges to the distribution function of Xas ...

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The Limit of a Sequence - MIT Mathematics

“obvious” using the definition of limit we started with in Chapter 1, but we are committed now and for the rest of the book to using the newer Definition 3.1 of limit, and therefore the theorem requires proof. Theorem 3.2B {an} increasing, L = liman ⇒ an ≤ L for all n; {an} decreasing, L = liman ⇒ an ≥ L for all n. Proof.

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I. The Limit Laws

Math131 Calculus I Limits at Infinity & Horizontal Asymptotes Notes 2.6 Definitions of Limits at Large Numbers Theorem • If r > 0 is a rational number then 0 1 lim = x →∞ xr • If r > 0 is a rational number such that xr is defined for all x then 0 1

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THE BOLZANO-WEIERSTRASS THEOREM

Theorem: An increasing sequence that is bounded converges to a limit. We proved this theorem in class. Here is the proof. Proof: Let (a n) be such a sequence. By assumption, (a n) is non-empty and bounded above. By the least-upper-bound property of the real numbers, s = sup n(a ) exists. Now, for every > 0, there exists a natural number N such

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The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus shows that di erentiation and Integration are inverse processes. Consider the function f(t) = t. For any value of x > 0, I can calculate the de nite integral Z x 0 f(t)dt = Z x 0 tdt: by nding the area under the curve: 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 Ð 2 Ð 4 Ð 6 Ð 8 Ð 10 Ð 12 ...

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