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Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by drjasonharrison on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:55PM (#23643511)
Am I right in interpreting their screenshot that their best found model has 22 parameters?!
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Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by mcphage on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:04PM (#23647261)
22 parameters, to predict 25 bits, and get 87.5% accuracy! Which is just under 22!
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Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by bnveg on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:15PM (#23647336)
This is out of sample performance. Only 4 models were compared outside the train domain. Also I don't see where you see 22 parameters, the complexity of a model is not defined as its number of parameters.
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