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cross-validation

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[kraws-val-i-dey-shuhn, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌvæl ɪˈdeɪ ʃən, ˈkrɒs- /

noun

Statistics.

  1. a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.

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Following this, the researchers implemented a composition-based cross-validation method.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

Five repeats of tenfold cross-validation were used to evaluate the classification accuracy.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

We determined decoder performance values as the mean rate of correct predictions over a tenfold cross-validation.

From Nature • Mar. 21, 2017

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