What does the source say is sufficient for practical bias–variance decisions?
Question: Answer in one to three sentences, distinguishing practical progress decisions from formal proof.
Sample answer: Informal definitions of bias and variance are sufficient for deciding how to make progress on an ML problem. Formal formulas are used to specify the quantities and prove Total Error = Bias + Variance when the error metric is mean squared error.
Key points:
- Informal definitions suffice for practical progress decisions.
- Mean squared error supports the formula-based proof.
Rubric: The answer must identify informal definitions as sufficient for progress decisions and correctly associate the formal proof with mean squared error.
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