MATLAB: Validation performance or test performance

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If one divided data to 3 subsets training/validation/test and Which of these can be defined as a criteria to select the network for regression?
1- validation performance
2- test performance
I really would appreciate any advice.

Best Answer

I have posted MANY detailed explanations of the separate data-division roles of the training, validation and testing subsets in BOTH the NEWSGROUP and ANSWERS.
Try searching with
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greg nondesign
greg nontraining