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jas0501
Posted : Sunday, April 27, 2014 9:29:40 PM
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While the literature on regression overfitting is
extensive, we believe that this is the first study
to discuss the issue of overfitting on the subject
of investment simulations (backtests) and its
negative effect...

from   http://www.ams.org/notices/201405/rnoti-p458.pdf

 

Booker
Posted : Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:10:48 AM
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Interesting read but this has been covered before. I prefer papers from Dr. Howard B. Bandy.

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