If you have such a small number of observations (with a much higher feature
space) then why do you think you can accurately train not just a single
MLP, but an ensemble of them without overfitting dramatically?

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Evangelidis <teva...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Regarding the evaluation, I use the leave 20% out cross validation method.
> I cannot leave more out because my data sets are very small, between 30 and
> 40 observations, each one with 600 features. Is there a limit in the number
> of MLPRegressors I can combine with stacking considering my small data
> sets?
>
> On Jan 7, 2017 23:04, "Joel Nothman" <joel.noth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *
>>
>>
>>> There is no problem, in general, with overfitting, as long as your
>>> evaluation of an estimator's performance isn't biased towards the training
>>> set. We've not talked about evaluation.
>>>
>>
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