tags : Statistics, Machine Learning
Why?
two very different motivations for linear models
- for causal inference
- for prediction
Resources
- https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf (To Explain or to Predict?)
- https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.31.2.87 (Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach)
- https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974?login=false (Reflection on modern methods)
- APA PsycNet
- [2309.06668] On the uses and abuses of regression models: a call for reform of statistical practice and teaching