Daniela Witten
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The new cover article in @NautilusMag is about the sordid history of eugenics in the field of statistics. I had a conversation with @aubreyclayton a few months ago, when he
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FOUR CARDINAL RULES OF STATISTICS A thread 1/ ONE: CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. Yes, I know you know this, but it’s so easy to forget!Yeah, YOU OVER THERE, you
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Last week, a paper came out that received a lot of very harsh criticism from the scientific community. First things first: I 100% agree with a lot of that criticism.
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The Bias-Variance Trade-Off & "DOUBLE DESCENT" Remember the bias-variance trade-off? It says that models perform well for an "intermediate level of flexibility". You've seen the picture of the U-shape test
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