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To Explain or to Predict?

Statistical Science2010, Vol. 25, No. 3, 289 310 Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010To Explain or to Predict? Galit modeling is a powerful tool for developing and testingtheories by way of causal explanation, prediction, and description. In manydisciplines there is near-exclusive use of statistical modeling for causal ex-planation and the assumption that models with high explanatory power areinherently of high predictive power. Conflation between explanation and pre-diction is common, yet the distinction must be understood for progressingscientific knowledge.

To Explain or to Predict? Galit Shmueli Abstract. Statistical modeling is a powerful tool for developing and testing ... that predicting and explaining are different. This article aims to fill a critical void: to tackle the distinction be-tween explanatory modeling and predictive modeling.

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