Statistical Learning in psychiatry

Psychiatric research has entered the age of 'Big Data'. Datasets now routinely involve thousands of heterogeneous variables, including...

What is Statistical Learning?

Statistical learning plays a key role in many areas of science, finance and industry. Here are some examples of learning problems:Predict...

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures

There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a...

To explain or to predict?

Statistical modeling is a powerful tool for developing and testing theories by way of causal explanation, prediction, and description. In...