Ellen,
It amazes me to read the self-righteous judgements of people on this
thread.. a number of whom have made incompetent criticisms of corresponding
correlations with the same arrogance and stupidity that they attribute to
the data mining boys, When the purpose becomes making money and not
pursuing truth, then we see such arrogance, lies and eventual evil. Real
people get hurt. Truth itself begins to appear to be an illusion, What ever
sells appears to be the good, When people are not willing to learn and to
discuss; to test and to discover, then we get the sort of ridiculous
examples of the pot calling the kettle black making up this thread. I like
your call for discernment. Good luck.
Bill Chambers
Ellen Hertz wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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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>
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