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June 2, 2010

"To Explain or To Predict?" accepted to Statistical Science

My paper "To Explain or To Predict?" has just been accepted to the journal  Statistical Science. The working paper with the most recent version is available  on SSRN.

The process of writing of this paper (and its various earlier versions) has been an extraordinary experience, with feedback from many colleagues in many disciplines and across the globe. I thank all of them for their invaluable comments and the lively discussions. Hopefully the paper will raise awareness to the important distinction between modeling for explanatory and predictive purposes, and will lead to the integration of predictive analytics in many disciplines that are currently monopolized by explanatory modeling.


April 6, 2010

Upcoming invited talk at New England Stat Symposium (May 19)

I will be giving an invited talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" (an abridged version of the 1-hour talk) at the 2010 New England Statistics Symposium, to be held this year at Harvard. Although my talk is within the "business" invited session, it definitely extends to all sciences using statistics, and especially to statisticians who are mostly concerned with descriptive modeling (which is neither explanatory, nor predictive).


February 19, 2010

Biosurveillance paper in Technometrics - Featured article

See coverage about this special issue in the latest Amstat News. Although they mention the Feb 2010 issue. Our paper was chosen to be a featured article, and is therefore freely available for download.


February 7, 2010

Rescheduled to April 8: Talk at UMD's Statistics group seminar

Inclement weather stepped on the original seminar date, so I will give the talk on "To Explain or To Predict?" at UMD's Math department's statistics group seminar series on Thurs April 8, 15:30-16:30 (Room 1313 Math building).


January 23, 2010

Rescheduled to April 12: Talk at Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation (UMD)

"To Explain or To Predict?" - Due to the snow storm, the talk that I supposed to present on Monday Feb 8, 2010, has been rescheduled to April 12,  11:30-12:30 @ UMD's department of measurement, statistics and evaluation, as part of their seminar series. Location: 1121 Benjamin Building.


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