Prospective evaluation is an approach to Out-Of-Sample Evaluation whereby a model learned from historical data is evaluated by observing its performance on new data as they become available. Prospective evaluation is likely to provide a less biased estimation of future performance than evaluation on historical data.
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(2017). Prospective Evaluation. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_978
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