Relationship between RMSE and RSS I'm working on simple linear regression, and I would like to understand the relationship between RMSE and RSS (residual sum of squares).
In another Stackexchange question, I found some explanations, but they didn't directly explain the answer to my particular question, and definitely not in a way I could understand.
What is the relationship between RMSE and RSS in linear regression?
 A: Having the mathematical derivations, you might ask yourself why use one measure over the other to assess the performance of a given model? You could use either, but the advantage of RMSE is that it will come out in more interpretable units. For example, if you were building a model that used house features to predict house prices, RSS would come out in dollars squared and would be a really huge number. RMSE would come out in dollars and its magnitude would make more sense given the range of your house price predictions.
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*The RSS is the sum of the square of the errors (difference between calculation and measurement, or estimated and real values):


$ RSS = \sum{(\hat Y_i-Y_i)^2} $


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*The MSE is the mean of that sum of the square of the errors:


$ MSE = \frac{1}{n}\sum{(\hat Y_i-Y_i)^2}$


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*The RMSE is the square root of the MSE:


$ RMSE = \sqrt{MSE} $
A bit of math shows:
$ RMSE = \sqrt{MSE} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{n} \cdot RSS} $
You can check it in the example that you posted:
$ RMSE = \sqrt{\frac{1}{32} \cdot 447.6743} = 3.740297 $
Note that for the mtcars dataset $n=32$.

Also see this question
