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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by gugagore on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:41PM (#19342927)
Meta-variety is like the variance of variances.

Heteroscedasticity is like changing variance.

Nice! I hadn't thought about that.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by abakker on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:06PM (#19344379)
Right, so this is like having autocorrelation, right? Or at least having a confounding variable correlated to your error term?
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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by gugagore on Saturday March 09, 2019 @10:37AM (#19346628)
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. But I think the answer is no.
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