Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction
And some other thoughts on other topics in statistics and information science
It’s been a few weeks on the blog so we have lots of posts to share. I’ll break them up into categories.
Today: statistics and information science
Tomorrow: sociology of science
Wed: political science
Thurs: everything else
Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction
AISTATS ’25 Best Paper award—Margossian and Saul on exact recovery of means and correlation in VI
Measurement error model Stan fitting struggle: The funnel again rears its ugly head
Generalizing for Sampling and Causal Inference (my talk 3pm today at the University of Maryland)
I now prefer the term “information science” to “statistics,” “machine learning,” and “data science.”