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Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice
- nanis 10y agoThis is probably the most often forgotten rule among engineers, software developers etc: > Rule 5: Statistical Analysis Is More Than a Set of Computations
- nerdponx 10y agoI think I get asked once a week, "can't we just run it through a neural network and be done?"
- larrydag 10y agoOh my. As if an algorithm can answer all problems. The algorithm is only a tool to analyze the data. The real science is understanding what the underlying data is telling you about the hypothesized behavior.
- ellisv 10y agoI thought this was sort of funny given the authors published a set of rules. Conjecture 1: Statistical practice is more than a set of rules.
- projectramo 10y agoI am not complaining about the quality of the list, but I fear the authors have conflated several senses of the word "rule" in this list. I have an intuition that "signal comes with noise", isn't the same kind of rule as "keep is simple." It might be useful to break it out into a checklist of things to look at, philosophical principles to keep in mind, and useful tips or something.