S3E15: Heywood You Help Me With Negative Residual Variances?

Quantitude

English - January 11, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratings
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In today's episode Greg & Patrick discuss the causes, consequences, and potential solutions associated with negative residual variances in factor analyses, a condition commonly called a Heywood case. Along the we way they also mention vegetarian pepperoni, Jaws Part 2, coffin seat belts, balancing a ship, bad puns, sterilizing needles, dead canaries, hitchhikers, legal depositions, boxes of geodes, knowing what time it is, and models that give you the finger.

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