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Statistics Spotlight: Prediction or Understanding?
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Statistics Spotlight: Prediction or Understanding?

Know your study’s priorities before selecting the best statistical model

Publication:
Quality Progress
Date:
April 2026
Issue:
Volume 59 Issue 4
Pages:
pp. 45-46
Author(s):
Anderson-Cook, Christine M.
Organization(s):
Los Alamos, NM

Abstract

As AI continues to be used in more aspects of our daily lives and work, it is beneficial to understand the fundamental choice between a complex model designed to squeeze out maximum performance on prediction at the potential cost of lack of interpretability or overfitting versus a simpler, more understandable model. Know the priorities of the study and choose wisely based on how the results of the model will be used.

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