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6.3. AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION 195perfectly normal. e best model for prediction may not be the correct model. e basicreason is that parameters must be estimated. When the training sample is small relative tothe complexity of a model, the parameters will not be estimated accurately. is means thatusing a deliberately simple model can sometimes improve prediction. And AIC is capable todetecting when, at least sometimes.Overthinking: Simulating AIC again. e function that simulates train and test for the multipleregression example in FIGURE 6.6 is given by this code:sim.train.test2

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