What does the term 'overfitting' refer to in the context of model selection?

Practice Questions

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What does the term 'overfitting' refer to in the context of model selection?
  1. A model that performs well on training data but poorly on unseen data
  2. A model that is too simple to capture the underlying data patterns
  3. A model that uses too many features
  4. A model that is trained on too little data

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What does the term 'overfitting' refer to in the context of model selection?
  • Step 1: Understand that a model is a mathematical representation used to make predictions based on data.
  • Step 2: Know that training data is the information we use to teach the model.
  • Step 3: Realize that a good model should learn the main patterns in the training data.
  • Step 4: Learn that overfitting happens when the model learns the training data too well, including the random noise.
  • Step 5: Recognize that when a model is overfitted, it performs well on the training data but poorly on new, unseen data.
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