Error metric
Wikimedia disambiguation page
An Error Metric is a type of Metric used to measure the error of a forecasting model. They can provide a way for forecasters to quantitatively compare the performance of competing models.
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This entry incorporates text from “Error metric” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.