Hi,
I would like to perform k-fold cross validation using Stata. Here are
explanation for k-fold (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~schneide/tut5/node42.html):
K-fold cross validation is one way to improve over the holdout method. The data
set is divided into k subsets, and the holdout method is repeated k times. Each
time, one of the k subsets is used as the test set and the other k-1 subsets are
put together to form a training set. Then the average error across all k trials
is computed. The advantage of this method is that it matters less how the data
gets divided. Every data point gets to be in a test set exactly once, and gets
to be in a training set k-1 times. The variance of the resulting estimate is
reduced as k is increased. The disadvantage of this method is that the training
algorithm has to be rerun from scratch k times, which means it takes k times as
much computation to make an evaluation. A variant of this method is to randomly
divide the data into a test and training set k different times. The advantage of
doing this is that you can independently choose how large each test set is and
how many trials you average over.
If anybody could help, I would deeply appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Nalin
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Nalin Payakachat
Ph.D Student in Pharmacy Administration
Department of Pharmacy Practice
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Purdue University
Tel:(765)4962413 (office)
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