Yesterday I opened a question, When authors write "model of the data" is this a shorthand for "model of the data generating process", that was marked duplicate of Why do we use term “population” instead of “Data-generating process”?. I would like your opinion on why they might be considered duplicates?
Maybe I should change the title to
- When authors write "model of the data" is this a shorthand for "model of what generated the data",
so that people don't get trapped in the "Data-generating process vs Population" issue?