I looked up one and copied it:
"For the first time, thanks to the increased power of computers, new
methods replace the skill of the statistical artisan with massive-computational
methods, obtaining equal or better results in far less time without requiring
any specialised knowledge."
In all fairness, I haven't read the whole paper and if he is referring purely to
computations such as generating maximum likelihood estimates or inverting
matrices, he is quite right that computers beat pencils. If he means to just run
programs without knowing what they mean and generate GIGO, that certainly is
dangerous.
Ellen Hertz
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
> >
> >
> >
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