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  <id>10094</id>
  <title><em>G</em>-fold cross validation</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - <em>G</em>-fold cross validation</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.10094</doi>
  <code>10094</code>
  <status>current</status>
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      <text>Cross validation of a data set of \(N\) objects in which \(N/G\) objects are removed at each iteration of the procedure.</text>
      <notes>
        <item>Objects 1 to \(N/G\) are removed on the first iteration, then objects \(N/G + 1\) to \(2N/G\) after replacement of the first \(N/G\) objects, and so on.</item>
        <item>Because the perturbation of the model is larger than in leave-one-out cross validation, the prediction ability of the G-fold cross validation is less optimistic than obtained with leave-one-out cross validation.</item>
      </notes>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 420 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)</item>
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    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: '<em>G</em>-fold cross validation' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10094</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-08-07T17:01:41+00:00</accessed>
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