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)
- (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)