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> 87% of statistics are made up.
Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine tenths of the total number of problems". Did that really need to be specified?
>> Of the 1% that can't be solved either way, 90% are solved with other statistical techniques (timeseries modeling, decision trees and so on).
> But why?
Is it really controversial that you should go for the simplest model that works?
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> 87% of statistics are made up.
Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine tenths of the total number of problems". Did that really need to be specified?
>> Of the 1% that can't be solved either way, 90% are solved with other statistical techniques (timeseries modeling, decision trees and so on).
> But why?
Is it really controversial that you should go for the simplest model that works?