Quick Bias/Variance Trade-Off

The Bias/Variance trade-off easily explained

James Thorn
Towards Data Science
7 min readMar 9, 2020

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This post will explain one of the most common issues in Machine Learning: The Bias/Variance Trade-off. We will see what it is, why it’s important to take it into account when building a Machine Learning model, and we will explain it intuitively and with zero math.

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What is the Bias/Variance trade-off?

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