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A metric is a function that outputs a distance between 2 elements of a set & meets certain strict criteria (some 'distance' functions are not metrics).

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How do we compare MAPEs?

if we have two models M1 and M2: MAPE_{M1} = 100% and MAPE_{M2} = 70%$ Does that mean that M2 is better than M1? can we say that M2 is (100/70 -1)*100 = 43% better?
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Does it make sense to increment by 1 the numerator and denominator in the MAPE to avoid divi...

One of the drawbacks of MAPE is that you can have actuals equal to 0. This will result in a division by 0 and thus an undefined MAPE. Does it make sense to increment by 1 the numerator and denominator …
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