1 of 2noun fac·torˈfak-tər 1 :one that buys or sells property for another:agent 2 :something that contributes to the production of a result price wasn't afactorin our decision 3 :gene 4 :any of the numbers or symbols in mathematics that when multiplied together form a produ...
So – an HCH tree whose human only has high school knowledge about math would not immediately guess the most elegant proof. Fortunately, it doesn't have to. HCH has a massive computational budget, so if it goes in a fruitless direction first, that's still fine, as long as it finds a ...
To include anxiety, stress, and control into the model as auxiliary variables, we must not substantively change the meaning of the analysis model. We accomplish this by modeling the joint distribution of the auxiliary variables conditional on the predictors and outcomes. Just as we factored the an...