Elsevier

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volume 116, December 2019, Pages 137-138
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Letter to the Editor
Statistics versus machine learning: definitions are interesting (but understanding, methodology, and reporting are more important)

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Funding: Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO) [grant G0B4716N]; Internal Funds KU Leuven [grant C24/15/037]; Cancer Research UK [grant 5529/A16895]; the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK.

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