The Two Cultures: Statistics and Machine Learning in Science

Robert E. Kass from the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), who is a Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics & Computational Neuroscience, also appointed at the Neuroscience Institute at CMU, and remaining a core faculty member in the Machine Learning Department at the CMU, wrote an important commentary to the discussion comparing the two approaches to analysing possibly large and complex data and the corresponding two cultures of scientific thought, represented by the Mathematical Statistics on the one hand, and, on the other, Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Good and interesting read for anyone interested in Statistical Modelling, DS, ML and AI.

Two Cultures: Statistics and ML in Science by Robert E. Kass (Carnegie Mellon University)