Abstract
Data miners (minors?) and neural networkers tend to eschew modelling, misled perhaps by misinterpretation of strongly expressed views of John Tukey. I discuss Vardi's views of these issues as well as other aspects of Vardi's work in emision tomography and in sampling bias.
Information
Published: 1 January 2007
First available in Project Euclid: 4 December 2007
MathSciNet: MR2459195
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/074921707000000210
Subjects:
Primary:
6207
Keywords:
data mining
,
emission tomography
,
Neural nets
,
sampling bias
,
statistical modelling
Rights: Copyright © 2007, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
