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So what in your view would be a better statistic?

It's a mistake to compare the two -- statistics 101.

Or stats?

Statistics can tell the difference.

statistics are based.

I mean, both are correct though (this is an inherent problem between statistics and (natural) languages - both are correct depending on context).

I did start my post with the words "in my opinion". I am not right or wrong about anything, and neither are you. We're mostly talking about syntax preferences here.

I'm separating out traditional statistics as an alias for statistical inference - make distributional assumptions, test them, estimate the effect of X on y and put a 95% confidence interval around it. That sort of stuff.

It's the stuff that absolutely does not matter if you're assessing the overall effectiveness of a classifier, and certainly isn't needed in a lot of data analysis tasks where all you need are variations of counts and percentages.

For the record, my academic background is maths and statistics. I've picked up any software development experience on the job.


Many epidemiologists seem to prefer Stata.

That seems to be a west coast thing. East coast epidemiologists that I know use some mix of S or SPSS or SAS.


Statsis?

Some stats are better and some aren't, but are you really saying that the reason some stats are better is _because_ they didn't do anything?

I'm not a practicing statistician, so I'm uncertain how to weigh the two arguments here.

$stats should be $minmax

Gave a statistic isn’t the same as linking to a statistic.

Also, statistics include facts like more than average not just specific numerical values.

PS: Though I have also linked to the numeric value before just not in this comment chain.


Neither. Reference should have followed the word pseudostatistics

The latter is the only one that's of practical interest.

"Known"is a bit strong, since the source for the statistics can be debated.


Step one (always): Look at your data.

Only then should you choose the statistic(s) you 'care' about.


You use statistics.

Stats is stats and one of the advantages of it is that they won't change based on the times they are shown or opinions, neither your or mine.

If you don't want to


Which statistics?
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