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INFORMATION FOR QUESTIONS 3A, 3C
FIGURES A AND B SHOW THE TRAINING DATA FOR A CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM, USING TWO
PREDICTORS (X1 AND X2 ) TO SEPARATE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE POINTS. THE DASHED LINES
ARE THE CLASSIFIERS.
Figure A Figure B
Question 3a
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Figure B shows an SVM classi cation using a complex nonlinear kernel. (To get this perfect t to the training data, it required
tting 16 parameter values!) Which of the following is true?
Figure B is a very good classi er, because it correctly classi es all of the training data.
Figure B is a very good classi er, because the model’s complexity shows that it is a deep analysis.
Figure B is a bad classi er to use, because it is over t.
Figure B might or might not be a good classi er, because it is over t.
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