get_coverage: Get quantile and interval coverage values for quantile-based...

In epiforecasts/scoringutils: Utilities for Scoring and Assessing Predictions

Get quantile and interval coverage values for quantile-based forecasts

Description

For a validated forecast object in a quantile-based format (see as_forecast() for more information), this function computes:

• interval coverage of central prediction intervals

• quantile coverage for predictive quantiles

• the deviation between desired and actual coverage (both for interval and quantile coverage)

Coverage values are computed for a specific level of grouping, as specified in the by argument. By default, coverage values are computed per model.

Interval coverage

Interval coverage for a given interval range is defined as the proportion of observations that fall within the corresponding central prediction intervals. Central prediction intervals are symmetric around the median and formed by two quantiles that denote the lower and upper bound. For example, the 50% central prediction interval is the interval between the 0.25 and 0.75 quantiles of the predictive distribution.

Quantile coverage

Quantile coverage for a given quantile level is defined as the proportion of observed values that are smaller than the corresponding predictive quantile. For example, the 0.5 quantile coverage is the proportion of observed values that are smaller than the 0.5 quantile of the predictive distribution. Just as above, for a single observation and the quantile of a single predictive distribution, the value will either be TRUE or FALSE.

Coverage deviation

The coverage deviation is the difference between the desired coverage (can be either interval or quantile coverage) and the actual coverage. For example, if the desired coverage is 90% and the actual coverage is 80%, the coverage deviation is -0.1.

Usage

get_coverage(forecast, by = "model")

Arguments

forecast	A forecast object (a validated data.table with predicted and observed values, see as_forecast())
by	character vector that denotes the level of grouping for which the coverage values should be computed. By default ("model"), one coverage value per model will be returned.

Value

A data.table with columns as specified in by and additional columns for the coverage values described above

a data.table with columns "interval_coverage", "interval_coverage_deviation", "quantile_coverage", "quantile_coverage_deviation" and the columns specified in by.

Examples

library(magrittr) # pipe operator
example_quantile %>%
  as_forecast() %>%
  get_coverage(by = "model")

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