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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Model validation

The basic premise of predictive analytics model validation is that you develop your model on one subset of the data (called the training dataset), and then demonstrate that your model has the capability to successfully predict similar resuls on a different set of data. Of primary importance the data set known generically as test. The test dataset is also known as a holdout sample. The training and test datasets are randomly determined before any model building begins, and the data is never changed. The validation data is a third dataset that is sometimes used to further test the validity of the data. It typically contains data the modeler has never seen before and is introduced after one model has been developed and determined ...

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ISBN: 9781785886188Supplemental Content