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Does the machine learning field have different nomenclature for this sort of thing than, say, econometrics? I recognize all the math, but the verbiage used is
by remarkEon 8y ago
Does the machine learning field have different nomenclature for this sort of thing than, say, econometrics?
I recognize all the math, but the verbiage used is different.
- jriot 8y agoI'm a trained a econometrician and a data scientist. Have you found people to be apprehensive with you since 'our' verbiage is different?
- remarkEon 8y agoIs that what I asked? I'm asking about why the usage of the mathematics that you and I are apparently both familiar with could be described in different ways depending on which field is referencing it. This is a linguistic question - not a mathematical one. No need to be rude.
- yorwba 8y agoIs that what they asked? Nomenclature is different in different fields all the time, or even different areas of the same field. It all depends on what practitioners feel is most intuitive. No need to call someone rude for not answering your question and asking their own instead.
- jriot 8y agoWhat was rude? A question?
- pjmorris 8y agoEach field seems to have its own nomenclature. I recognize 'instrumental variables' from a (bio-)statistics course, so I think that's a pure statistics term. Larry Wasserman has a vocabulary chart in 'All of Statistics' (there's a PDF I won't link to) that lists terms differing between statistics and computer science. For example he writes that 'using data to estimate an unknown quantity' is called 'estimation' in statistics and 'learning' in computer science.