#statistics
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Correlation does not imply causation, but it can suggest it.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
You are not a statistic; you are an individual.
Cross-validation is a technique for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent data set.
From The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov
The extinction rate is now 100 times higher than the background rate.
Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too well, including noise and outliers, leading to poor generalization.
From Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
The law of small numbers is a form of overconfidence.