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A test set is a data set containing data that are used for evaluation by a learning system. Where the training set and the test set contain disjoint sets of data, the test set is known as a holdout set.
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(2017). Test Set. 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_820
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