Refers to general procedures that attempt to determine the generalizability of a statistical result. Cross-validation arises frequently in the context of assessing how a particular model fit predicts future observations. Methods for cross-validation usually involve withholding a random subset of the data during model fitting and quantifying how accurate the withheld data are predicted and repeating this process to get a measure of prediction accuracy.

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