
Difference between descriptive and predictive modelling
2016年7月23日 · To me this seems like it fits the description of descriptive modelling and predictive modelling. I am looking at historical data and trying to find the set of rules that …
Practical thoughts on explanatory vs. predictive modeling
Your article are focused on explanatory models, intended as causal, and predictive one. You only mention a third type of models, the descriptives: “ Although not the focus of this article, a third …
Purpose of leave-one-out cross-validation in descriptive modelling
In descriptive modeling, variable selection is performed based on theory first and only then confronted with the model output and data. See this post for a discussion on predictive vs …
How to get started on multivariate predictive modeling?
2012年2月1日 · I'm used to doing descriptive modeling where I'm very concerned with parsimony and interpretability, but now I have a project that calls for the opposite and I'd like advice on …
Linear Regression as a descriptive model? - Cross Validated
2022年4月28日 · I understand that linear regression can be used as a descriptive model (also am well aware that the regression coefficients should be interpreted as correlations rather than …
Does descriptive statistics only work with samples?
2020年10月22日 · Descriptive statistics provide simple summaries about the sample and about the observations that have been made ... Later on, different measures are described such as …
modeling - Testing multiple hypotheses or building a descriptive …
2017年11月8日 · 2. Building a descriptive model Advantages: no/limited a priori selection of explanatory variables, however stepwise backward model selection, model/data dredging in a …
regression - Big noob in statistics -- I have Yes/No data; how can I ...
2017年2月10日 · Any modeling comes after. IMHO though, do note that "checking whether variables are correlated" in itself, is hardly a research question. I say this, because the reason …
definition - Exploratory vs. Descriptive Statistical Analysis - Cross ...
2020年6月9日 · Descriptive statistics definition is pretty clear to say that it summarizes data using statistical methods like mean, mode, median, and spread. However, I came across the term …
Is it possible that the AIC and BIC give totally different model ...
2018年5月14日 · $\begingroup$ There is a third type of modeling - descriptive modeling - but I don't know of any references on which of AIC or BIC is best suited for identifying an optimal …