Statistics and experimental design · MLD-0199
Confounding
A situation where a shared cause distorts an observed relationship between variables.
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Original example
User activity affects both recommendations and clicks.
Original caveat
Controlling arbitrary variables can create new bias.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Theory · Evaluation · Research.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: None recorded.
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Original references
- scikit-learn: cross-validation ↗ · Reference link
- Mathematics for Machine Learning ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: evaluation metrics ↗ · Reference link
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