Bias-variance tradeoff

Practicing Statistics Interview Questions in Python

Conor Dewey

Data Scientist, Squarespace

Types of error

• Bias error
• Variance error
• Irreducible error

Bias error

¹ How to Use Machine Learning to Predict the Quality of Wines

Variance error

¹ How to Use Machine Learning to Predict the Quality of Wines

Bias-variance tradeoff

¹ Scott Fortmann

Summary

• Types of error
• Bias error
• Variance error
• Bias-variance tradeoff

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Practicing Statistics Interview Questions in Python