How to Pronounce “overfitting”
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What “overfitting” means
noun — The production of a statistical model that, due to an excess of parameters relative to the sample size, fits the sample data extremely well but fails to fit new data.
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overfitting (noun): The production of a statistical model that, due to an excess of parameters relative to the sample size, fits the sample data extremely well but fails to fit new data.
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