> How so? They don't fit the definition [1,2,3]. But I looked at the internet, and apparently many people consider neural nets to be statistical models, or "a

> How so? They don't fit the definition [1,2,3]. But I looked at the internet, and apparently many people consider neural nets to be statistical models, or "a kind of" statistical models. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_model [2] https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~pmcc/pubs/AOS023.pdf https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~pmcc/pubs/AOS023.pdf [3] https://www.statlect.com/glossary/statistical-model https://www.statlect.com/glossary/statistical-model