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Comment by nxobject

1 day ago

As a statistician, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention bootstrapping - theoretically distinct, but another demonstration of the power of randomization techniques.

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ViscountPenguin  21 hours ago

The power of bootstrapping is pretty insane really, I'm still impressed by the performance of random forests, and even bootstrapped confidence intervals are really cool.

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