They are amazingly misleading. A basic stat book will explain why. One example
is the statement that traditional statistical methods assume that predictor
variables
are uncorrelated with each other - incredible!
Zubin wrote:
> Can you be more specific on what the misleading statements are? And why you
> think they are misleading.
>
> T.S. Lim <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > While hunting for URLs for KDCentral.com, I encountered several
> > misleading statements about Statistics made by Data Mining people.
> > I've posted 3 of them to my bulletin board. If you encounter other
> > wrong remarks, I invite you to post them to the board too at
> >
> > http://www.recursive-partitioning.com/forums
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > T.S. Lim
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.Recursive-Partitioning.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Get paid to write review! http://recursive-partitioning.epinions.com
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Frank E Harrell Jr
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences
University of Virginia School of Medicine
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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