What is the purpose of using cross-validation in model selection?

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What is the purpose of using cross-validation in model selection?
  1. To increase the size of the training dataset
  2. To assess how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent dataset
  3. To reduce the dimensionality of the dataset
  4. To improve the interpretability of the model

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What is the purpose of using cross-validation in model selection?
  • Step 1: Understand that cross-validation is a technique used in machine learning.
  • Step 2: Know that the goal of cross-validation is to check how well a model performs on new, unseen data.
  • Step 3: Realize that to do this, we split our data into different parts or subsets.
  • Step 4: Use some of these subsets to train the model (this is called the training set).
  • Step 5: Use the remaining subsets to test the model (this is called the validation set).
  • Step 6: Repeat this process several times, each time using different subsets for training and validation.
  • Step 7: Finally, analyze the results to see how well the model can predict new data.
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