> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient Any regression class which doesn't teach about overfitting is incomplete. R^2 is still

> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient Any regression class which doesn't teach about overfitting is incomplete. R^2 is still a very useful measure, however, if you've come up with a parsimonious model and want to describe its descriptive performance.