Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 218 2 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The solid curve is the test errorand the dashed curve is the training error . As the horizontal coordinate tends to , , so every penalized slope tends to zero and . The two limits are thereforerespectively.
As the horizontal coordinate tends to , and the fit approaches the ordinary least squares fit . Hence the solid curve tends to , which the plot shows is approximately .