What useful problems do PPLs solve? Ideally some applications that are interesting for us non-corporate people. Can it be used for medical statistics (e.g., in nutrition)? (Any examples?) Is the reason it is not used the illiteracy of the scientists, or are the mainstream methods better?
PPLs are a tool to bring complicated statistical modeling to the masses. Computers are capable of doing much more advanced statistical modeling than appears in every non-statistics paper, but most people don’t have the expertise to build them. PPLs allow you to write complicated statistical models and then evaluate them with state-of-the-art methods without having to build everything from scratch.
What useful problems do PPLs solve? Ideally some applications that are interesting for us non-corporate people. Can it be used for medical statistics (e.g., in nutrition)? (Any examples?) Is the reason it is not used the illiteracy of the scientists, or are the mainstream methods better?
PPLs are a tool to bring complicated statistical modeling to the masses. Computers are capable of doing much more advanced statistical modeling than appears in every non-statistics paper, but most people don’t have the expertise to build them. PPLs allow you to write complicated statistical models and then evaluate them with state-of-the-art methods without having to build everything from scratch.