MAE {metrica} | R Documentation |
Mean Absolute Error (MAE)
Description
It estimates the MAE for a continuous predicted-observed dataset.
Usage
MAE(data = NULL, obs, pred, tidy = FALSE, na.rm = TRUE)
Arguments
data |
(Optional) argument to call an existing data frame containing the data. |
obs |
Vector with observed values (numeric). |
pred |
Vector with predicted values (numeric). |
tidy |
Logical operator (TRUE/FALSE) to decide the type of return. TRUE returns a data.frame, FALSE returns a list; Default : FALSE. |
na.rm |
Logic argument to remove rows with missing values (NA). Default is na.rm = TRUE. |
Details
The MAE measures both lack of accuracy and precision in absolute scale. It keeps the same units than the response variable. It is less sensitive to outliers than the MSE or RMSE. The lower the better. For the formula and more details, see online-documentation
Value
an object of class numeric
within a list
(if tidy = FALSE) or within a
data frame
(if tidy = TRUE).
References
Willmott & Matsuura (2005). Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance. Clim. Res. 30, 79–82. doi:10.3354/cr030079
Examples
set.seed(1)
X <- rnorm(n = 100, mean = 0, sd = 10)
Y <- X + rnorm(n=100, mean = 0, sd = 3)
MAE(obs = X, pred = Y)