This Blog Post: Risk Controlled Conformal Prediction of Outcomes for Customers, Patients, or Other Entities © 2024 by Lynd Bacon & Loma Buena Associates is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 TL; DR? Here's the BLUF: Risk-controlled conformal prediction methods subsume conformal prediction methods as a special case. They allow controlling for the risk of specified types of prediction errors. Single or multiple kinds of risk can be accommodated. Like conformal prediction methods, risk-controlling methods are model agnostic, and they can provide finite sample statistical certainty guarantees. A simple, and mostly conceptual, description of risk controlled conformal prediction, follows. As noted elsewhere and by many, conformal prediction methods can provide a statistically valid, finite sample certainty guarantees about whether predictions for individual new cases, contain, or cover, the "true" quantity or value to be ...