Please Note: This seminar will be given online.
Distinguished Lecture Series
Trevor Hastie, The John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University
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Predictive Models in Health Research
Lasso, Random Forests, and especially Deep Neural Networks are very popular in data science applications. Do they have a role in health research, and are they likely to replace more traditional statistical models? In this talk I will argue that it depends on the application, the amount of data available, and the purpose of the modeling, with some guidance from the "Occam's razor" principle.
