Thursday, October 18, 2012 Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: The problem of overfitting elections, in one brilliant cartoon Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post Economy News: Get the latest headlines and in-depth coverage of economic news, policy, analysis and more from The Washington Post. The problem of overfitting elections, in one brilliant cartoon Oct 18th 2012, 18:57 Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise" (recommended, buy it, read it, etc.) includes a great discussion of the problem of "overfitting": When you see apparent relationships in data that aren't really there. His example: Read full article >> You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions Tweet
