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Science communication. Response to Comment on "Quantifying long-term scientific impact".

Dashun Wang¹, Chaoming Song², Hua-Wei Shen³

¹IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.

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|July 12, 2014

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This study demonstrates that large prediction errors reported by Wang, Mei, and Hicks result from overfitting. Our model effectively identifies overfitting and outperforms their proposed method.

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Area of Science:

Machine Learning
Statistical Modeling

Background:

Concerns have been raised regarding potential large mean prediction errors in our predictive model.
These concerns were specifically highlighted by research from Wang, Mei, and Hicks.

Purpose of the Study:

To address claims of large mean prediction errors associated with our model.
To demonstrate the efficacy of our model in identifying and mitigating overfitting.
To compare our model's performance against a proposed alternative approach.

Main Methods:

Analysis of prediction errors in the context of model overfitting.
Application of standard regularization techniques to prevent overfitting.
Utilizing our model as a tool for detecting papers susceptible to overfitting.

Main Results:

The observed large mean prediction errors are attributed to overfitting, a common issue in statistical modeling.
Standard regularization methods effectively resolve the overfitting problem.
Our model successfully identifies papers potentially affected by overfitting.
The model, even without pre-treatment, shows superior performance compared to the naïve approach suggested by Wang, Mei, and Hicks.

Conclusions:

The claims of significant prediction errors are unfounded and stem from a failure to address overfitting.
Our model serves as a robust tool for identifying overfitting in research papers.
The proposed model offers a superior and effective alternative to the naïve approach for prediction tasks.