I have the following result from weka. As I observed the result I have noticed the ROC area is above 90 and the correctly classified instances is 85% Is this a sign of overfitting?
Topic weka random-forest
Category Data Science
This seems like a good model as you are able to classify 85% of classes correctly assuming the numbers are on testing dataset.
Just by looking at one number its not possible to comment on model fit. To correctly gauge model fit please compare training set performance with test set performance and if you see a very high difference it indicates overfitting ( train perf is much better than test)
No, this is not a sign of overfitting. The two measures (accuracy and ROC area under the curve) are not comparable.
In order to check for overfitting you need to apply the trained model on the training set itself, and then compare the performance with the one on the regular test set. There is overfitting if the training set performance is very high and the test set performance is much lower.
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