pronunciation - How do you pronounce Lowe in Lowes - English . . . I am a Lowe in the US of english descent and my family pronounce "Lowe" as rhyming with "how " Our family has been in the US since at least the late 1700s To my grandfather's knowledge (the oldest living Lowe in my family) our family has always pronounced it this way
Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other? There is no such constraint on Akaike's original derivation, or, to be clearer, on the derivation using the AIC as an estimator of the Kullback-Leibler divergence In fact, in a paper that I'm working on, I show somewhat "empirically" that the AIC can even be used for model selection of covariance structures (different number of parameters
grammar - Pick up someone vs Pick someone up? - English Language . . . Oxford Learner's Dictionary provides this notation for the relevant meanings of pick up: pick somebody <-> up pick somebody something <-> up The <-> means that the word before and after can appear in reverse order Technically, in example 1 I can either "pick the baby up" or "pick up the baby "
When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? The (original or quoted?) passage uses it correctly, but the OP's understanding may not be completely correct You might want to address that it seems like the OP thinks use (3) should be capitalized, but this is an instance where it's used to mean "father" and would not be capitalized, in opposition to (not "just like") use (4), where it's a name
capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage . . . The University of Ottawa’s writing guide: Subject areas and disciplines Subject areas like biology, sociology, engineering, women’s studies and psychology are common nouns and don’t normally take a capital letter The University of Ottawa has programs in an array of disciplines, from mathematics and medicine to chemistry and criminology
Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled? Official nomenclature and journalistic practice A recent item by Elisabeth Ribbans, "COVID or Covid?The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis," in The Guardian (April 19, 2020), asserts that initial-capping acronyms (abbreviations pronounced phonetically as approximately the sum of their letter sounds, rather than as as a series of names of the constituent alphabet letters) is the
Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10 6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
verbs - Can was be abbreviated as s? - English Language Usage . . . The apostrophe + s is usually understood to mean a shortened form of is or has It would not be understood to represent a different tense of be She's at home yesterday would be read as She is at home yesterday which is incorrect (of course, the apostrophe can shorten other words as well, such as have, but that is not relevant to your
How to interpret main effects when the interaction effect is not . . . The main effects calculated with the interaction present are different from the main effects as one typically interprets them in something like ANOVA For example, it's possible to have a trivial and non-signficant interaction the main effects won't be apparent when the interaction is in the model Let's say you have two predictors, A and B