overfit

English

Etymology

Verb

overfit (third-person singular simple present overfits, present participle overfitting, simple past and past participle overfitted)

(statistics) To use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample leading to a good fit with the sample data but a poor fit with new data.

Related terms

underfit

Translations

statistics: to use a statistical model that has too many parameters

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