Verb: overfit (overfitted,overfitting)
- (data analysis) fit a model with too many parameters relative to the size of the sample, so that noise is fit as well as signal (leading to too good a fit with the sample data but a poor fit with typical new data)
"The researcher had to be careful not to overfit the model to the limited dataset"
Derived forms: overfits, overfitting
Encyclopedia: Overfit