Irreverent Demystifiers
Why is MSE = Bias² + Variance?
Introduction to “good” statistical estimators and their properties
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8 min readNov 27, 2022
The bias-variance tradeoff
“The bias-variance tradeoff” is a popular concept you’ll encounter in the context of ML/AI. In building up to making it intuitive, I figured I’d give the formula-lovers among you a chatty explanation of where this key equation comes from:
MSE = Bias² + Variance
