--- In Statisticians_group@..., Abhishek LALL
<abhi77340@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I was wondering how do u tackle the problem of over-fitting in
case of forecasting algorithms?
>
> krishanu chakraborty <krchakraborty@y...> wrote:
> HI everybody,
> i am very new in spss. is there anybody there to help me how and
when to use Correlation and regression model.
>
> thanks in advance
> krishanu
>
>

A common method is to split (using some random procedure) your data
in half and fit the model to one half, and then test how well it
fits on the second half. Alternatively, collect two sets of data,
use the one to develop a model, and the second to test it.

Lance