Replacing statistics with modern predictive models

George Hosu
25 min readApr 5, 2021

Original article can be found here: https://cerebralab.com/Replacing_statistics_with_modern_predictive_models

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Most fields of scientific inquiry rely on classical statistics to make inferences about the world based on experimental data.

What I mean by “classical statistics” differs from modern machine learning methods (modern predictive models) in the…

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George Hosu

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