bias: Bias

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References

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Description

Bias in probabilistic forecasts

Usage

1
bias(obs, pred)

Arguments

obs

observed vector T X 1

pred

Simulated predictions T X N. Each column is a simulation.

Details

Bias is measured as

2 * mean((heaviside(obs - pred)) - 0.5)

where heaviside returns 1 if the arg is positive, 0 if this negative and 0.5 if it is 0. The average is taken over all simulations.

Value

vector of length T.

Author(s)

Sangeeta Bhatia

References

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006785


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