Practice Hold-Out Validation - 12.3.A | 12. Model Evaluation and Validation | Data Science Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is hold-out validation?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about why we need to test a model.

Question 2

Easy

What are common ratios used in hold-out validation?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what is typically understood in proportion.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the primary purpose of hold-out validation?

  • To optimize hyperparameters
  • To evaluate model performance
  • To preprocess data

πŸ’‘ Hint: What do we want to know after training a model?

Question 2

True or False: Hold-out validation consistently provides low variance results.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the implications of different data distributions in results.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Imagine you have a dataset of 1,000 patients with only 5% having a rare disease. If you were to use hold-out validation, what pitfalls would you expect, and how would you mitigate them?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the implications of class distribution.

Question 2

Create a practical example where you would use hold-out validation and explain how you would set up the experiment.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the importance of the data’s temporal aspect when setting splits.

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