Section No: 6, Unit No: 21, question 3

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Course Name: Machine Learning for Options Trading, Section No: 6, Unit No: 21, Unit type: Assessment isn’'t this answer provided by portal worng:If the “min_samples_leaf” hyperparameter is set to a low value, what will be the likely effect on the decision tree classifier’s ability to generalise to new data?

  1. The model will have a higher chance of overfitting the data.— This should be the correct answer.
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Thank you for pointing this out. You are correct, a low value of min_samples_leaf allows the decision tree to create very small leaf nodes, increasing the likelihood of overfitting and reducing its ability to generalise to unseen data.

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