Reposting Partial Pooling
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Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to the mathematics rendering we picked up in a WordPress migration. So please checkout how to use partial pooling to improve predictive modeling game!
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