Bias-variance trade-off
FRM Part 1 glossary · Financial Risk Manager: Part I
Definition
The balance between error from an overly simple model and instability from a model that fits sample noise.
Bias-variance trade-off in plain English
Model complexity can reduce bias while increasing variance, producing a U-shaped out-of-sample error curve.
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