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Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing aver...

Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing aver...

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Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance

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Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance

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Inter-Research

Journal title

Climate research, 2005-12, Vol.30 (1), p.79-82

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English

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Inter-Research

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The relative abilities of 2, dimensioned statistics—the root-mean-square error (RMSE) and the mean absolute error (MAE)—to describe average model-performance error are examined. The RMSE is of special interest because it is widely reported in the climatic and environmental literature; nevertheless, it is an inappropriate and misinterpreted measure...

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Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance

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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_3354_cr030079

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_3354_cr030079

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0936-577X

E-ISSN

1616-1572

DOI

10.3354/cr030079

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