Rookie Data Science Mistake Invalidates a Dozen Medical Studies
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5 min readMar 17, 2020
When Gilles Vandewiele noticed a large number of studies reporting near-perfect accuracy in predicting whether would-be mothers will undergo premature delivery, his jaw dropped. This was huge.
The unbearably high mortality rate of infants has plagued humanity since its inception. Preterm birth, which afflicts every tenth newborn in the US, is the leading…
