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- noun
prediction that is erroneously high
Etymologies
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From over- +ā prediction
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Examples
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But for some reason (s), demographics yield a massive overprediction; immigrants commit crimes at one-tenth the expected rate given their demographics.
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Iām quite sure that there are papers on this topic somewhere overfitting / overprediction in calibration problems.
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