A bias correction for the minimum error rate in cross-validation

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 822-829

  Tibshirani, Ryan J ^a   Tibshirani, Robert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Optimism estimation; Prediction error estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957226516     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS224     Document Type: Article

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