Chapter 04.06: Resampling 1

Different resampling techniques help to assess the performance of a learner while avoiding potential quirks resulting from a single train-test split. We will introduce cross-validation (with and without stratification), bootstrap and subsampling.

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Code demo

Resampling

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Quiz

--- shuffle_questions: false --- ## Which statements are true? - [x] Cross-validation, bootstrap, and subsampling are resampling techniques. - [x] Estimating the expected generalization error is a goal of resampling. - [ ] In bootstrap, each observation serves as a test point exactly once. - [x] In resampling, the data set is split repeatedly into training and tests sets. - [ ] Resampling strategies are unbiased.