Questions tagged [mae]
The Mean Absolute Error (MAE) is a point forecast accuracy measure. In the forecasting literature, Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is used interchangeably.
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Percentage change in RMSE (or MAE) over models
Let's say I have two different models of an outcome Y, m1 and m2 and perform some kind of cross-validation.
I calculate the RMSE and the MAE on the test set (for the two models) and I want to say ...
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Giving more importance to under prediction (mean absolute error) than over prediction for forecasting
Just curious to hear any thoughts on weighting over prediction in mean absolute error to minimize the penalty since I'm more interested in under prediction, if that makes sense. Basically, I'm ...
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How to interpret MSE, RMSE and MAE
I understand in general MSE, RMSE and MAE means average distance between the actual and predicted value, and the lower the MSE, RMSE and MAE, the better the model fits the dataset.
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MAE vs MSE for Linear regression
Several articles says that MAE is robust to outliers but MSE is not and MSE can hamper the model if errors are too huge. My question is that MSE and MAE both are error matrices, our priority is to ...
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Are MAE and RMSE possible ways of choosing between ols and types of glm?
I have a longitudinal data set and have fit a number of different regression models [ols, poisson, binomial....and more]. I want to justify the final model selection and assumed one method might be to ...
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MAE or RMSE for my data? [duplicate]
I have been checking how each error metric works in the hope to find the best one for my data but it can be quite tricky actually.
I have monthly time series data and I am running a SARIMA model to ...
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Why can't I reproduce the MASE of a time series manually as in done in the Fable package?
I am trying to produce the Mean Absolute Scaled Error (MASE) for a custom time series model to compare its performance in forecasting several indicators with different units. I wanted to check my ...
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How to approximate MAE of monthly values from MAE of daily values?
Suppose I have the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of daily values for a period of, say, 1 year. Assume the errors are normally distributed.
The value for a month is equal to the sum of the values for each ...
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MAPE does not take into account the range of the output?
I have a time-series regression model where the output is always in the range of 6000-6050. After training my model, I get a Mean Absolute Error of around 18 and hence, very low Mean Absolute ...
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is Mean Absolute Error (MAE) unique?
Reading this answer as to why minimizing MAE results in median forecasts, I did not fully understand why MAE is not unique!
What is exactly meant by this?
Can someone give a specific example of ...
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Showing RMSE and MAE results as percentage error
I have the results of RMSE and MAE from different spatial interpolation methods as a monthly averages (See the figure below). As ...
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Alternative to mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)
MAPE metric has problems when the actual value to be predicted is very small. In the extreme when the actual value is 0 then MAPE will be infinity (if the prediction is not exactly 0). What about this ...
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Is there a single regression quality metric for the median and the 95% percentile?
I want to evaluate the quality of prediction of two values the median and 95% percentile of a distribution. Is there a standard way to do this? I have thought about using "Mean Mean Average Error&...
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Estimating empirically the Wasserstein distance
I have a dataset of the form $\{x_i,y_i,y_i'\}$, where $y_i\sim p(\cdot|x_i)$ and $y_i'\sim q(\cdot|x_i)$, while $x_i$ itself has a distribution $d(\cdot)$
Is there I way to estimate
$$\mathbb E_{x\...
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Why can the aggregated prediction of two bad models be better than the one two very good models?
I am modeling two separated processes (e.g., number of events A and B). As jointly modeling both processes is not possible, I estimate for each process three different models.
When I look at the three ...
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What optimisation method is used in ordered logistic regression?
I am using the polr function in R to create an ordered logistic model and am curious to know what its optimisation method is?
It seems to perform better than other models I have tested it against when ...
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Measuring errors of relative frequency distribution over a time series
I have 2 time series, in each I have the number of visits in a certain place - one is the real number, one is a processed sample. Since the real numbers are in xxK visits per week and the sample is in ...
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Interpretation of mean absolute error in rpart
I ran rpart on my dataset (3000x9) to predict adolescent GPA (continuous), made predictions on test data, and found the mean absolute error to be in the range of 0.45-0.48. Does this mean that the ...
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High RMSE and High MAE in Autoencoder Regression
I have been developing a simple autoencoder model using PyTorch by which I am training the reconstructed output to be the same and input and also do regression on the hidden layer to predict a single ...
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Why getting very high values for MSE/MAE/MAPE when R2 score is very good
I am applying different regression models (RF, Knn, etc) on some well-known datasets (bike sharing, diabetics, etc). The value of R2 is very good. From the R2 score,...
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Model performance in time-series forecasting with some outliers
I'm creating forecasts for products where some of them have large seasonal spike during times like Christmas and/or Easter but relatively low sales volume on other times. For this particular product ...
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Using standardized values (z-score) for MAE (Mean absolute error)
I have two models/indices that try to predict observed values. I've compared them using correlation and regression, but I'd like to use MAE (Mean absolute error) to asses which of them is more closer ...
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Out-of-sample MSE and MAE for volatility forecasting [duplicate]
I have been searching through the whole CrossValidated but couldn't find the answer.
I want to test out-of-sample the volatility forecasts (if it means something ARCH-like ones, MSGARCH, Multifractal ...
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Why is there no improvement when training Xgboost with pseudo-Huber loss?
In this StackOverflow post I asked if there was something wrong with my syntax when training an XGboost model (in R) with the native pseudo-Huber loss ...
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Does Data Normalization affect RMSE & MAE?
Suppose I am using two different methods to perform regression, such as ARIMA (1) and a Neural Network (2), and I am using the RMSE and MAE metrics to measure accuracy. For method (1), I do not ...
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Choosing metric for regression problem RMSE or MAE
I have a regression task where I want to predict no of product sold by manufacturer. My data is time series with each day having a certain no of units sold.
I'm slightly torn as to which metric to use....
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Is this the right way to evaluate MSE, RMSE, MAE, MAPE after creating a model on data passed through a standard scaler?
Create the Scaler object
scaler = preprocessing.StandardScaler()
Fit your training data on the scaler object
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What is the interpretation of the negative value for the Normalized Mean Absolute Error (nMAE) metric?
I am using the normalized mean absolute error metric for evaluating my results. The data I use is in time-series form. Their trend may be increasing or decreasing over time. All the values are ...
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Can MAE be reported in percentage?
In Wang et al. "Predicting New Workload or CPU Performance by Analyzing Public Datasets" (2019), the MAE is measured in a standardized space (Mean=0, SD=1). This is discussed in 3.4 Metrics, ...
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MAPE is better but MAE is worse in regression models
I am working on a regression problem to predict price of the vehicle based on its features. I have been experimenting with several trials but in one of them, MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) is ...
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What is mean average error?
I saw that in some articles but I couldn't find any definition. Its unit is in the following form:
MAE/mean(MAE)
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huge difference between RMSE and MAE in non-linear regressors
I am building non-linear regression models such as a Random Forest regressor , a KNN regressor or a SVM using a RBF kernel and I decided to use both RMSE and MAE as evaluation metrics.
I know that a ...
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Mean average error normalized by the standard deviation of the target
I'm working on a regression model, aiming at prediction age from structured data.
I'm using the mean average error (MAE) as evaluation metric, and want to compare my performances with state-of-the-art ...
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MAE regression gives biased regression parameters for symmetric error?
Consider a linear model,
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y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1x_{1i} + \beta_2x_{2i} + \epsilon_i.
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From the Gauss-Markov theorem, I know that, under nice conditions, the $\hat{\beta}_{OLS}=(X^TX)^{-1}X^Ty$ ...
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How should i compare this MAE results
I'm in need of help to correctly interpret these results.
I am analyzing a time series of crime data. The series has 351,980 events.
These are the results of the predictions using a regression model:...
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How do I interpret mean absolute error (MAE) or mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) in layman words?
For example, I am predicting a score that can have value from 0 to 100. Lets assume MAPE = 10...
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Scaling the MAE by the mean of non zero points for intermittent data
I am currently trying to find a way of scaling the MAE for my intermittent data.
The data is always greater than 0 and is intermittent, with long periods of zeros.
I have read a few papers that ...
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What does it mean when MAE improved while RMSE worsened?
I am comparing two models:
One is a black box that I cannot understand, the other is a GLM.
How can I describe why the differences are like this? Is the GLM performing worse than the blackbox?
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Quantile loss 50th is MAE, is it? [duplicate]
I'm not sure the above sentence is true, but I read it here, here and here that quantile loss function percentile 0.5 is MAE(mean absolute error), Is it true(Yes or No)? and How?
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Comparison of MAE and Mean to illustrate the error magnitude
I have predicted a time series with positive, zero and negative values. As error measurement I used the Mean Absolute Error (MAE).
In order to give the reader of my paper a better understanding ...
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Learning Curves using different models
I am running repeated K-fold Cross-Validation on my dataset using different models. My problem is a regression problem and I am counting on the error metric MAE. I do know that some models may behave ...
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Can someone give the intuition behind Mean Absolute Error and the Median? [duplicate]
I do not understand the intuition behind why the median is the best estimate if we are going to judge prediction accuracy using the Mean Absolute Error. Let's say you have a random variable $X$ and ...
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Dividing the MAE by the average of the values
I would like to parse the MAE (Mean Absolute Error) to a percentage value. I know there is the MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error), however it has some drawbacks as going to infinity if one of my ...
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Can RMSE and MAE have the same value?
I am implementing cross validation and calculating error metrics such as RMSE, $R^2$, MAE, MSE, etc.
Can RMSE and MAE have the same value?
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RSME, MAE and prediction interval [closed]
Could someone please clarify, whether it is appropriate to define a prediction interval or an equivalent for an RMSE and MAE measure. If so, could you please suggest how such an interval is defined.
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MSE Intuition and Interpretation
I've got a very small question. Say I'm making a linear regression model. When I test the model with a testing set, I get an MSE of 4.31 (arbitrary). What do I interpret from this? As in, what does ...
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Error distribution for Huber Regression
For linear regression there's an assumption that error terms come from normal distribution. so that $Y = aX + b + \epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ has normal distribution with mean zero and certain ...
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a measure for MAE (of a regression)
I'm running a grid search, in order to fine-tune a NN hyper parameters.
the question is:
the MAE values I get from the trainings are too close.
since I have the statistical attributes of the target ...
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Standardised mean absolute error (SMAE) and how to calculate it?
I am using the mean absolute error
mean(abs(obs - pred))
as one of the measures assessing the fit of my model. I would also like to have a standardised measure ...
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What is the best point forecast for gamma distributed data?
I believe that the values I am forecasting are gamma distributed with shape $k>0$ and scale $\theta>0$. I need a point forecast (i.e., a one-number summary) that minimizes the expected error. ...
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