overfits

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A form of overfit — 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.

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Meanings

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of overfit
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