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Usage and meaning of specific technical words/concepts in statistics.

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Objective function, cost function, loss function: are they the same thing?

The terms cost and loss functions are synonymous. Some people also call them the error function. The more general scenario is to define an objective function first that we want to optimize. This objec …
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