A valid machine model is predictive, but a predictive model may not be valid. The gap between these two can be larger than many practitioners may expect.
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Li, J., Liu, L., Le, T.D. et al. Accurate data-driven prediction does not mean high reproducibility. Nat Mach Intell 2, 13â15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0140-2
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