Recent content by snowfox2004

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    Graduate Using an odds ratio when data is sparse

    I thought that fitting the ENTIRE input set involving all the exposures to a logistic regression model would automatically adjust the odds ratios to account for possible confounding variables by this paper on page 319: http://www.iarc.fr/en/publications/pdfs-online/epi/cancerepi/CancerEpi-14.pdf...
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    Graduate Using an odds ratio when data is sparse

    Suppose I have around 20 exposures that potentially affect an outcome and I want to see which exposures have bigger impacts on the outcome. So I want to calculate each exposures' odds ratios by exponentiating the coefficients obtained from logistic regression. So I have the following input set...
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    Graduate A Mathematician's View on the Existence of Time

    I am not certain if this is the right location to put this post, but since this is a section for mathematics and my question is one for mathematicians, it will be placed here for now: How would you, as a mathematician, view time? More precisely, do you think time exists? It might be...
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    Math REUs 2012: When Can We Expect Decisions?

    I was just accepted to the University of Washington REU 2012! I look forward to seeing you there!
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    How do you correctly pronounce these German words?

    yeah, I didn't know Google Translate could do that either. Well, knowledge is power XD
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    How do you correctly pronounce these German words?

    No, No I really appreciate it. So would saying it as note er be correct? Like class notes and then an er sound that you make when you are really confused? XD
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    How do you correctly pronounce these German words?

    Hello, I would really appreciate any help in pronouncing the following words: Noether Erlangen Gottingen I am giving a presentation on Emmy Noether, and I don't want to mispronounce these words. I asked a friend who took German..and he had no idea XD. Any help would be great! Thx.
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    Does the reputation of my undergraduate education matter?

    Hello, I was in a similar situation to yours :P I was accepted to EWU, Gonzaga, and UW. Although I was accepted into the Honors program and given a full ride to UW, they would not cover my living costs. At that time, there was no way I could afford the living costs...although I really wanted...
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    Cardinality Question from Basic Analysis. Thanks for any help.

    Homework Statement If the cardinality of A is less than or equal to the cardinality of the reals and the cardinality of B is less than or equal to the cardinality of the reals, I need to show that the cardinality of the union of A and B is less than or equal to the cardinality of the reals...