In all modeling techniques, and neural networks in particular, care must be taken not to overtrain or overfit the model. If possible, models should be interpreted in terms of their mechanistic meaning.
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Overfit
Synonyms for "overfit"
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8 translations across 7 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 過擬合 /过拟合 verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
- 過適 /过适 verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
Finnish
1 entries- ylisovittaa verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
French
1 entries- surinterpréter verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
German
1 entries- überanpassen verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
Icelandic
1 entries- ofmáta verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
Portuguese
1 entries- sobreajustar verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
Spanish
1 entries- sobreajustar verb (statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters)
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If your strategy is to always fit and use the global model, you will probably overfit the model (i.e., include unnecessary variables).
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