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I want to use cross validation to validate the results of my model, However, I'm confused how to use it.

Should I split my data to 3 sets (Train, Validation,test) and validate the results on test set?

or make the validation on the whole data set?

or use validation as a training phase and test on the test set?

It is good to mention that my dataset is almost 500 records. Thanks

user201561
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Yes, you should divide your dataset in three sets(train, validate and test).

As you are having 500 records, a good division may be [250, 125, 125]. Where you are having 250 records for training, 125 validating and 125 testing.

You may find this useful.

Sanjay Chandlekar
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  • even though I dont want to tune parameter? , I only want to validate the model I'm getting after testing? – user201561 Mar 26 '18 at 11:03
  • As per my understanding, Validation is itself used for tuning hyper-parameters. You've written, you don't want to tune those parameters. Then why to use validation. Correct me if I'm wrong. I also want to know what you mean by "I only want to validate the model I'm getting after testing". – Sanjay Chandlekar Mar 26 '18 at 11:13