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caddymanI have just read the draft answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by some senile old idiot in the Upper House.
The question is meaningless on every level, and the answer is a waste of time.
Not for the first time, someone has compared oranges with apples and expressed the answer in terms of lemons. I'm speaking metaphorically here, something I shouldn't have to state, but I have a couple of exceedingly literal minded friends.
You know who you are.
The question is meaningless on every level, and the answer is a waste of time.
Not for the first time, someone has compared oranges with apples and expressed the answer in terms of lemons. I'm speaking metaphorically here, something I shouldn't have to state, but I have a couple of exceedingly literal minded friends.
You know who you are.
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Date: 2009-02-20 05:11 pm (UTC)statistics
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* residual analysis ( in statistics (science): Residual analysis )
The ith residual is the difference between the observed value of the dependent variable, yi, and the value predicted by the estimated regression equation, ŷi. These residuals, computed from the available data, are treated as estimates of the model error, ε. As such, they are used by statisticians to validate the assumptions...
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