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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Like all folks modeling presidential elections, we're forced to use small samples (e.g. n=12) to infer what the broader universe (n=∞) looks like. This is hard! But if you overfit models to past data, you'll often make poor inferences about what unobserved data looks like. — PolitiTweet.org

Natalie Jackson @nataliemj10

Saved you some time and transcribed Nate's assessment of economic predictive models. I presume this means that 53… https://t.co/av5kijtZ5E

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@CT_Bergstrom How does this interact with the supposed heterogeneity in rates of transmission? It seems like "some people have pre-existing resistance/immunity" and "heterogeneity is high" are sort of two sides of the same coin? — PolitiTweet.org

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So while we spend a lot of time thinking thru different model specifications, it's mostly *not* about trying to maximize fit on past data. It's more about thinking through edge cases and specifications that will be robust under a variety of conditions. — PolitiTweet.org

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