Estimating Prediction Error: Cross-Validation vs. Accumulated Prediction Error |
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Authors: | Jenny Häggström |
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Institution: | Department of Statistics , Ume? University , Ume?, Sweden |
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Abstract: | We study the validation of prediction rules such as regression models and classification algorithms through two out-of-sample strategies, cross-validation and accumulated prediction error. We use the framework of Efron (1983
Efron , B. ( 1983 ). Estimating the error rate of a prediction rule: improvement on cross-validation . Journal of the American Statistical Association 78 : 316 – 331 .Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) where measures of prediction errors are defined as sample averages of expected errors and show through exact finite sample calculations that cross-validation and accumulated prediction error yield different smoothing parameter choices in nonparametric regression. The difference in choice does not vanish as sample size increases. |
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Keywords: | Local polynomial regression Nonparametric regression Out-of-sample validation Smoothing parameter |
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