Bias vs Variance Trade-off — Clearly Explained
Bias vs Variance, Overfitting vs Underfitting
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6 min readApr 14, 2021
Why we need a bias-variance tradeoff
In machine learning, we collect data and build models using training data. We apply that model to test data, which the model has not seen, and do predictions. Our main aim is to reduce the prediction error.