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Re:Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning by wUabkSG6L5Bfa5 on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:41PM (#18489084)
I once interviewed at a biostats shop where the interviewer kept using the word "responses" to refer to feature values. I could not pin him down on the problem statement. Pretty sure that dumbass thinks I'm a dumbass.
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Re:Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning by ende on Monday November 19, 2018 @03:44PM (#18489608)
That doesn't make sense. By "response" he probably meant response variables, as in the dependent variables. Features would be the independent variables (or "predictors" in some stats/biostats circles).
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Re:Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning by wUabkSG6L5Bfa5 on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:29PM (#18490303)
Precisely! Post hoc, I figured out that he must have meant responses to an assay, which makes sense in context, but like, I would have expected someone with any stats background whatsoever to be able to clarify.
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