Questions tagged [model-selection]
Model selection is a problem of judging which model from some set performs best. Popular methods include $R^2$, AIC and BIC criteria, test sets, and cross-validation. To some extent, feature selection is a subproblem of model selection.
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How to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes in a feedforward neural network?
Is there a standard and accepted method for selecting the number of layers, and the number of nodes in each layer, in a feed-forward neural network? I'm interested in automated ways of building neural ...
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How to choose a predictive model after k-fold cross-validation?
I am wondering how to choose a predictive model after doing K-fold cross-validation.
This may be awkwardly phrased, so let me explain in more detail: whenever I run K-fold cross-validation, I use K ...
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How to know that your machine learning problem is hopeless?
Imagine a standard machine-learning scenario:
You are confronted with a large multivariate dataset and you have a
pretty blurry understanding of it. What you need to do is to make
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Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other?
The AIC and BIC are both methods of assessing model fit penalized for the number of estimated parameters. As I understand it, BIC penalizes models more for free parameters than does AIC. Beyond a ...
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Algorithms for automatic model selection
I would like to implement an algorithm for automatic model selection.
I am thinking of doing stepwise regression but anything will do (it has to be based on linear regressions though).
My problem ...
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Training on the full dataset after cross-validation?
TL:DR: Is it ever a good idea to train an ML model on all the data available before shipping it to production? Put another way, is it ever ok to train on all data available and not check if the model ...
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Nested cross validation for model selection
How can one use nested cross validation for model selection?
From what I read online, nested CV works as follows:
There is the inner CV loop, where we may conduct a grid search (e.g. running K-fold ...
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How much do we know about p-hacking "in the wild"?
The phrase p-hacking (also: "data dredging", "snooping" or "fishing") refers to various kinds of statistical malpractice in which results become artificially statistically significant. There are many ...
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What are modern, easily used alternatives to stepwise regression?
I have a dataset with around 30 independent variables and would like to construct a generalized linear model (GLM) to explore the relationship between them and the dependent variable.
I am aware that ...
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Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?
When solving business problems using data, it's common that at least one key assumption that under-pins classical statistics is invalid. Most of the time, no one bothers to check those assumptions so ...
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Variable selection for predictive modeling really needed in 2016?
This question has been asked on CV some yrs ago, it seems worth a repost in light of 1) order of magnitude better computing technology (e.g. parallel computing, HPC etc) and 2) newer techniques, e.g. [...
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Linear model with log-transformed response vs. generalized linear model with log link
In this paper titled "CHOOSING AMONG GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS APPLIED TO MEDICAL DATA" the authors write:
In a generalized linear model, the mean is transformed, by the link
function, instead of ...
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Why only three partitions? (training, validation, test)
When you are trying to fit models to a large dataset, the common advice is to partition the data into three parts: the training, validation, and test dataset.
This is because the models usually have ...
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A more definitive discussion of variable selection
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I'm doing clinical research in medicine and have taken several statistics courses. I've never published a paper using linear/logistic regression and would like to do variable selection ...
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What are posterior predictive checks and what makes them useful?
I understand what the posterior predictive distribution is, and I have been reading about posterior predictive checks, although it isn't clear to me what it does yet.
What exactly is the posterior ...
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