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Really interesting article. After reading it, it seems that statistics are about devising a model (like y=ax+b+epsilon) and then fitting it on the data while ma
by S4M 10y ago
Really interesting article. After reading it, it seems that statistics are about devising a model (like y=ax+b+epsilon) and then fitting it on the data while machine learning algorithms are about letting the data make their own model).
- nfoz 10y agoI think a statistical view of that dichotomy is "parametric statistics" vs. "non-parametric statistics": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics I see "machine learning" as exploring computational approaches to non-parametric statistics. The idea of data-driven model-estimation is not outside the scope of "statistics".