tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post4417850192645533745..comments2024-03-02T01:02:21.655-08:00Comments on Applied Data Science and <br>Machine Learning: Graphing Considered DangerousDean Abbotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16818000233889520746noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post-37396164404558223242009-04-02T11:12:00.000-07:002009-04-02T11:12:00.000-07:00Comment from Gelman on his post: "As I hope was cl...Comment from Gelman on his post: "As I hope was clear, in many ways my discussion above is serious."<BR/><BR/>Both tables and graphs can be misleading. If you report two parameter estimates, where one is higher than the other but the confidence intervals overlap - only a statistician will interpret this as not having enough evidence to judge the parameters to be unequal. Everyone else (meaning Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057096345613832279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post-41714141699810788022009-04-01T17:16:00.000-07:002009-04-01T17:16:00.000-07:00I guess the eggs on my face, ha ha!Still, there is...I guess the eggs on my face, ha ha!<BR/><BR/>Still, there is still the question of how best to use graphs, and when graphs are simply not enough.Will Dwinnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379859054257561952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post-51844982252129332552009-04-01T16:45:00.000-07:002009-04-01T16:45:00.000-07:00The problem with graphs is that there are no stati...The problem with graphs is that there are no statistical tests to tell us that the graph is significant in of itself. If there were only a ... g-test or something....Dean Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16818000233889520746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post-35919867045287191332009-04-01T16:28:00.000-07:002009-04-01T16:28:00.000-07:00Uh....Andy's posting was an April fool's joke.He i...Uh....<BR/><BR/>Andy's posting was an April fool's joke.<BR/><BR/>He is hard-core pro-graph.Ted Dunning ... apparently Bayesianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02498665124454933570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652924.post-82209301315933630012009-04-01T14:55:00.000-07:002009-04-01T14:55:00.000-07:00I work in Marketing & Advertising and can stat...I work in Marketing & Advertising and can state with confidence that if you can't put the data in a chart or graph then you are better off not showing the data.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com