49 questions linked to/from Nested cross validation for model selection
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### Cross validation and parameter tuning

Can anyone tell me what exactly a cross-validation analysis gives as result? Is it just the average accuracy or does it give any model with parameters tuned? Because, I heard somewhere that cross-...
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### Internal vs external cross-validation and model selection

My understanding is that with cross validation and model selection we try to address two things: P1. Estimate the expected loss on the population when training with our sample P2. Measure and report ...
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### How bad is hyperparameter tuning outside cross-validation?

I know that performing hyperparameter tuning outside of cross-validation can lead to biased-high estimates of external validity, because the dataset that you use to measure performance is the same one ...
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### Implementation of nested cross-validation

I'm trying to figure out if my understanding of nested cross-validation is correct, therefore I wrote this toy example to see if I'm right: ...
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### How is the confusion matrix reported from K-fold cross-validation?

Suppose I do K-fold cross-validation with K=10 folds. There will be one confusion matrix for each fold. When reporting the results, should I calculate what is the average confusion matrix, or just sum ...
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### How to get hyper parameters in nested cross validation?

I have read the following posts for nested cross validation and still am not 100% sure what I am to do with model selection with nested cross validation: Nested cross validation for model selection ...
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### Nested cross-validation - how is it different from model selection via kfold CV on the training set?

I often see people talking about 5x2 cross-validation as a special case of nested cross validation. I assume the first number (here: 5) refers to the number of folds in the inner loop and the second ...
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### 10-fold cross validation, why having a validation set?

I have my data stratified in 10 folders. So far I was using 9 of them to train the model, and the remaining one for testing it. A sudden thought just crossed my mind saying "you might be cheating". ...
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### How to do cross-validation with cv.glmnet (LASSO regression in R)?

I'm wondering how to approach properly training and testing a LASSO model using glmnet in R? Specifically, I'm wondering how to do so if a lack of an external test data set necessitates I use cross-...
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### How to build the final model and tune probability threshold after nested cross-validation?

Firstly, apologies for posting a question that has already been discussed at length here, here, here, here, here, and for reheating an old topic. I know @DikranMarsupial has written about this topic ...
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### Is cross validation needed?

Suppose we have training data set and a test data set. The outcome variable is binary. Is it usually necessary to split the training data set so that there is a cross validation data set? Or can you ...
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### CV for model parameter tuning AND then model evaluation

I have a basic question on using cross-validation for model parameter tuning (model training) and model evaluation (testing) similar to this Model Tuning and Model Evaluation in Machine Learning I ...
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### How to obtain optimal hyperparameters after nested cross validation?

In general, if we have a large dataset, we can split it into (1) training, (2) validation, and (3) test. We use validation to identify the best hyperparameters in cross validation (e.g., C in SVM) and ...
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### AIC BIC Mallows Cp Cross Validation Model Selection

If you have several linear models, say model1, model2 and model3, how would you cross-validate it to pick the best model? (In R) I'm wondering this because my AIC and BIC for each model are not ...
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### Backward stepwise regression with cross validation in R

I would like to do model selection using backward stepwise procedure and cross validation. https://www.otexts.org/fpp/5/3 I have used stepAIC in ...
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### Cross-validation: Which classifier to use in the end? [duplicate]

This might sound like a very simple question, but I haven't been able to find an answer to it, yet: Assuming I am working on a binary classification task and I am using k-fold cross-validation to ...
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### Model prediction: test for difference in MSE

I have made two regression models. They were made on a training set of 80% of the data. And 20% of the data is the validation set. No test set is made. The models tell me how much premium a ...
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### SVM parameter selection and model testing with cross-validation

I've read: Model selection and cross-validation: The right way Crossvalidation and/or testdata. Always use both or can one exclude the other? but I still don't get it. My problem is to construct a ...
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### Feature selection: is nested cross-validation needed?

I have about 150 samples 1000 features (ranked by their importance by Relieff score). My question is, what would be the best approach to: choose the hyper parameters choose the optimal number of ...
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### Comparing classification algorithms using cross validation and caret's train

I am having issues understanding some concepts of algorithm comparison/parameter optimization/cross-validation in R Let's say I want to compare two classification algorithms, such as Random Forests ...
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### Model selection: before or after nested cross-validation?

I want to build a neural network over a data set. My idea is to use cross-validation on a training set to select the "best" neural network (and evaluate it on a separate test set) and to use nested ...
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### Cross-validation when splitting data into train/dev/test sets

Background: Train set: data used to train the chosen model Dev set: data used to tune the model's parameters Test set: data used to evaluate the performance of the final model How cross-validation ...
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### Compare different classification algorithms after hyperparameter tuning

Let's say I have a classification problem with $c$ classes. For this, I have a data set containing $N$ distinct feature vectors with $n$ features. Let's say $N$ is of the order of $10^5$, and both $c$ ...
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### Nested cross validation vs repeated k-fold

I know there are many topics(1,2,3), papers(1,2,3) and websites(1) that discuss this topic at length. However for the past two days I am reading all I can find about the subject and seems I hit a ...
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### An intuitive understanding of each fold of a nested cross validation for parameter/model tuning

There are several questions on this site essentially asking how nested cross validation for parameter tuning works. A lot of the answers use some jargon that I find difficult to understand, but as far ...
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### Which gamma regression model to use for extrapolation?

I'm looking for a regression model which would satify these requirements: My target variable follows the exponential distribution, so to my understanding I should use gamma loss function. I have ...
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### Does changing the parameter search space after nested CV introduce optimistic bias?

Suppose I am fitting a Ridge and I decide to search a parameter space for c:[1,2,3]. I perform nested CV on my whole dataset and find the performance not so great. I therefore expand my search space ...
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### parameter tuning using nested cross validation

Parameter tuning in SVM has been performed using a nested cross-validation(CV) approach with 45 folds(outer loop) and 13 folds(inner loop). In this process, the outer loop will have 45 prediction ...