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What are common mistakes to avoid with Handling Imbalanced Datasets
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A common mistake with Handling Imbalanced Datasets is applying it without fully understanding the underlying data or problem, which often leads to weak or misleading results. Skipping proper testing before relying on it in a real project is another frequent error.
Real-world example A fraud detection dataset with very few fraud cases compared to normal transactions uses oversampling to help the model learn to detect fraud more reliably.