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### Would you please give some examples on Bias-Variance Trade off? [duplicate]

I am a new learner for Machine Learning and are confused about the idea of bias-variance trade-off. Would you please offer some specific examples or situations that a bias-variance trade-off occurs? ...
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### What problem do shrinkage methods solve?

The holiday season has given me the opportunity to curl up next to the fire with The Elements of Statistical Learning. Coming from a (frequentist) econometrics perspective, I'm having trouble grasping ...
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### What does interpolating the training set actually mean?

I just read this article: Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization In section 6.1 I stumbled upon the following sentence Specifically, in the overparameterized regime ...
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### Number of parameters in an artificial neural network for AIC

How can I calculate the number of parameters in an artificial neural network in order to calculate its AIC?
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### How does one explain what an unbiased estimator is to a layperson?

Suppose $\hat{\theta}$ is an unbiased estimator for $\theta$. Then of course, $\mathbb{E}[\hat{\theta} \mid \theta] = \theta$. How does one explain this to a layperson? In the past, what I have said ...
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### Biased bootstrap: is it okay to center the CI around the observed statistic?

This is similar to Bootstrap: estimate is outside of confidence interval I have some data that represents counts of genotypes in a population. I want to estimate genetic diversity using Shannon's ...
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### Is there a graphical representation of bias-variance tradeoff in linear regression?

I am suffering from a blackout. I was presented the following picture to showcase the bias-variance tradeoff in the context of linear regression: I can see that none of the two models is a good fit - ...
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### Why must one trade off between bias and variance?

Apparently, a learning algorithm must make a trade off between bias and variance when producing a hypothesis. Bias means systematic deviation from data. Variance refers to the error due to ...
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### What if there is no true data-generating process?

I've been engaging in a number of forecasting efforts recently, and have rediscovered a well-known truth: That combinations of different forecasts are generally better than the forecasts themselves. ...
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### Bias / variance tradeoff math

I understand the matter in the underfitting / overfitting terms but I still struggle to grasp the exact math behind it. I've checked several sources (here, here, here, here and here) but I still don't ...
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### Modern machine learning and the bias-variance trade-off

I stumbled upon the following paper Reconciling modern machine learning practice and the bias-variance trade-off and do not completely understand how they justify the double descent risk curve (see ...
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### When will a less true model predict better than a truer model?

In "To Explain or to Predict?", Pr. Galit Shmueli said that sometimes a less true model can predict better than a truer model. Why is it so? When will it happen? How does it happen? Is explanation a ...
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### Interpretation of low bias and variance for train/test errors

Based on the extensive discussion in this post, I understand that the goal is to achieve low bias and low variance. Now, in terms of train and test errors, does it imply that achieving low bias and ...
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### Relation between MSE and Bias-Variance

If MSE is $$\mathrm{MSE}(\hat Y) = \mathrm{Var}(\hat Y) + \mathrm{Bias}^2(\hat Y)$$ and the Bias-Variance decomposition is given by  \mathrm{Err}(\hat Y\,|\,X=x_0) = \mathrm{Var}(\hat Y) + \...
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### Why does machine learning work for high-dimensional data($n \ll p$)?

Consider the high dimensional data with which the number of features $p$ is much larger than the number of observations $n$. Machine learning algorithm is trained with the data. My first thought is ...

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