Prediction vs. Explanation and its Effect on Statistical Methods
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Practical thoughts on explanatory vs. predictive modeling
127754
Interpretation of a probability problem: expected value.
83655
Assumptions behind cross-validation
125531
A path to truly understanding probability and statistics
45881
Methods to work around the problem of missing data in machine learning
147087
Learning probability bad reasoning. Conditional and unconditional
109914
Generalized Least Squares vs Ordinary Least Squares under a special case
7187
Explaining to laypeople why bootstrapping works
95663
How to interpret Mean Decrease in Accuracy and Mean Decrease GINI in Random Forest models
136012
why boosting method is sensitive to outliers
12817
Determining true mean from noisy observations
121204
Is it preferable to subset data to test specific hypotheses or specify a full model and run contrasts?
15613
Interpretation of simple predictions to odds ratios in logistic regression
142784
For linear classifiers, do larger coefficients imply more important features?
43393
Interpretation of p-value in hypothesis testing
61192
Why are lower p-values not more evidence against the null? Arguments from Johansson 2011
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Hint-only / Mostly hint answers: desirable or not?