Up-Front Classification is at Odds with Optimum Decision Making
Channel: RMS Regression
Date: 18/01/2016

This material is from the Information Loss chapter of Biostatistics for Biomedical Research available from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ClinStat.  It defines the information that serves as inputs to optimum decisions and shows that using classification instead of prediction is often not a good idea.  Advantages of probabilistic thinking are briefly discussed.