ofmáta

Icelandic

Etymology

From of- (“too, excessively”) +‎ máta (“to try on, to see whether something fits”).

Verb

ofmáta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ofmátaði, supine ofmátað)

1. (statistics) to overfit; (use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample leading to a good fit with the sample data but a poor fit with new data)