paper-machine comments on Why the tails come apart - Less Wrong

114 Post author: Thrasymachus 01 August 2014 10:41PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 August 2014 04:25:21PM 1 point [-]

Another approach seems to be stepwise regression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwise_regression

Comment author: [deleted] 07 August 2014 04:30:25PM 1 point [-]

So it wasn't as clear with the previous link, but it seems to me that the nth step of this method doesn't condition on the fact that the last n-1 steps failed.