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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

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With the rise of advanced technology and globalized operations, statistical analyses grant businesses an insight into solving the extreme uncertainties of the market. A 2009 investigative survey by Dr. Daniele Fanelli from The University of Edinburgh found that 33.7% But this didn’t come easy. Let’s look at one of them closely.

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Attributing a deep network’s prediction to its input features

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Typically, causal inference in data science is framed in probabilistic terms, where there is statistical uncertainty in the outcomes as well as model uncertainty about the true causal mechanism connecting inputs and outputs. Our code has details (there are probably other reasonable visualization approaches that work just as well).

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

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Many of these models are standard, and can be fit using a variety of tools, such as the StructTS function distributed with base R or one of several R packages for fitting these models (with the dlm package (Petris 2010, Petris, Petrone, and Campagnoli 2009) deserving special mention). Compare to Figure 2.