mae: Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

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Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

Description

Computes mean absolute error.

Usage

mae( pred, actual, weight = 1, na.rm = FALSE )

Arguments

pred	a numerical vector of estimated values.
actual	a numerical vector of actual values.
weight	a numerical vector of weights the same length as pred.
na.rm	a logical value indicating whether NA values in pred should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Value

The computed mean squared error (numeric value).

Author(s)

Reza Mohammadi [e-mail] and Kevin Burke [e-mail]

See Also

mse

Examples

pred   = c( 2.3, -1.4, 0, 3.45 )
actual = c( 2.1, -0.9, 0, 2.99 )
  
mae( pred, actual )

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