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Comment #37131971
Fantastic! Any tips on tools one can use to parse PDF including their structure? Much appreciated.
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Ask HN: What use are data scientists when the ground truth is not known?
Businesses face a lot of uncertainty. They may employ data scientists to inform decisions. But who's to tell that the data analyses actually make sense? How would a business know? …
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Comment #18111151
You will benefit from reading Pearl/Glymour/Jewell: Causal Inference in Statistics. A Primer (The contrast to Imbens and Rubin is crazy)
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Comment #15447809
This is one the most thought-provoking things I've read on markets and economic policy in a very long while.
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Comment #13993452
Note there's an exploding literature that reads these models as causal models: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r350.pdf
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Comment #13867376
Central proposal on p. 98: "What if, instead, knowledge was unbundled from the start and embedded in how researchers actually develop their knowledge? This is essentially what happ…
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Comment #13694370
"I really like penalized maximum likelihood estimation (which is really empirical Bayes) but once we have a penalized model all of our frequentist inferential framework fails us. N…
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Comment #13573185
Hey, the key assumption (the "identification" assumption) is in 2.4 of the paper you referred to. I do not have time to go through the notation, but it seems to be like a fairly st…