Reference

Bias in error estimation when using cross-validation for model selection, Sudhir Varma, Richard Simon. BMC Bioinformatics(2006)

Abstract

Cross-validation (CV) is an effective method for estimating the prediction error of a classifier. Some recent articles have proposed methods for optimizing classifiers by choosing classifier parameter values that minimize the CV error estimate. We have evaluated the validity of using the CV error estimate of the optimized classifier as an estimate of the true error expected on independent data.