Computer Age Statistical Inference¶
Efron, B., & Hastie, T. (2016). Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science. Cambridge University Press.
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- Statistical Inference
- A clinical trial estimates a treatment effect from randomized patients; an A/B test estimates the difference in conversion rates between two design variants; a survey estimates population prevalence from a sample; a sensor-fusion algorithm infers the true state of a system from noisy measurements; a machine-learning model estimates class probabilities and their uncertainty.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The book's own abstract supports only the general frame that statistical inference now spans classical and modern data-driven applications including machine learning; it names none of the four specific applications in the claim.
“'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science and commerce. ... The distinctly modern approach integrates methodology and algorithms with statistical inference.”
- A clinical trial estimates a treatment effect from randomized patients; an A/B test estimates the difference in conversion rates between two design variants; a survey estimates population prevalence from a sample; a sensor-fusion algorithm infers the true state of a system from noisy measurements; a machine-learning model estimates class probabilities and their uncertainty.
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