Machine learning versus statistical modeling

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 588-593

  Boulesteix, Anne Laure ^a   Schmid, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Prediction; Reproducibility; Transportability; Tuning parameters

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

CHRISTIANS; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTICATEGORY; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STATISTIC MODELING; TRANSPORTABILITY; TUNING PARAMETER;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84903629415     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201300226     Document Type: Note

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