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### What must someone know in statistics and machine learning? [closed]

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### Multivariate statistics vs machine learning?

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### When should linear regression be called “machine learning”?

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### GLMMs, stable isotope distribution analysis

I am currently working with a set of samples of stable isotopic concentrations obtained from a group of individuals. I am trying to process this data through a glmm() from the package lme4 to ...
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### If regression is supervised learning is correlation unsupervised learning?

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### Are there good recent (i.e. year 2018) papers and discussions on the issue of “Statistics vs. Machine Learning”?

I try to get an overview about the most recent discussions of how machine learning and classical statistics differ. There is an excellent discussion on this issue here on stackexchange ( The Two ...
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### When predictive analytics is better than statistics?

I am somehow confused by the term of so called "predictive analytics". It is so often used today that makes me think the old-school statisticians never before tried to create any predictive models. ...
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### choice of mean for mean centering

I am doing statistical analysis of empirical data using a a generalized ordered regression model. I would like to test for interaction terms. I have a 3-level categorical IV (coded as 2 dummy ...
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### What is the 'fundamental' idea of machine learning for estimating parameters?

The 'fundamental' idea of statistics for estimating parameters is maximum likelihood. I am wondering what is the corresponding idea in machine learning. Qn 1. Would it be fair to say that the '...
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### Pandas / Statsmodel / Scikit-learn

Are Pandas, Statsmodels and Scikit-learn different implementations of machine learning/statistical operations, or are these complementary to one another? Which of these has the most comprehensive ...
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### Why do Statistics, Machine learning and Operations research stand out as separate entities

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### What is the difference between Inference and Machine Learning? [duplicate]

I have seen some classes in my University labeled as an "Inference class" and others as "Machine learning" classes, but I was not sure if appreciated the core difference between these two labelings? ...
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### In linear regression, when is it appropriate to use the log of an independent variable instead of the actual values?

Am I looking for a better behaved distribution for the independent variable in question, or to reduce the effect of outliers, or something else?