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The Analysis Factor
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The Analysis Factor is the company blog at theanalysisfactor.com, writing about data and science. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite The Analysis Factor's posts on statistics terms, such as predictor variables and independent variables, as references for their own explanations of research methods. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
There are a number of metrics that are commonly used to settle on a number of factors to extract. There's some judgment in it to be sure, but you are looking at data-driven phenomena as well like percentage of variance explained, a precipitous drop in new added value, and etc. Essentially you come to a point where extracting another value isn't explaining much more variance or producing a factor that's meaningful (e…
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on “A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes”Submitted The Difference Between Clustered, Longitudinal, and Repeated Measures Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee http://www.thefreedictionary.com/predictor+variable , or http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/the-many-names-of-independe... Pregnancy predicts sexual activity just as sexual activity predicts pregnancy (actually, better). The reference to the future is that you test the second variable in the future, not that it receives its value in the future. From the second link: > Predictor Variable: It does not imply causalit…
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on “Child's drawing 'predicts later intelligence'”Submitted Should You Always Center a Predictor on the Mean? as a story · 1 points
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