In AAE we have predicted value and true value.We already have the true
value but how we get the predicted value.


On 16 January 2015 at 19:17, Scott Purdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> The error metrics are configurable. The two most commonly used are average
> absolute error (AAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). You can
> also specify a moving window so instead of calculating the error at a given
> point over all data so far, you calculate the metric over the last 1000
> records (or whatever you specify).
>
> Swarming doesn't change the model it uses on a per-record basis. Instead,
> when it picks a new parameter set it runs it all the way through and then
> takes the final error metric (which may be computed over just the last X
> records) and compares it to other models tried.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Dinesh Deshmukh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The documents about swarming illustrate how the error is calculated,but i
>> cant understand what the error itself mean.That is on what comparisons does
>> i get the error value?
>>
>> What i understand is,if i have 100 data units then swarming would use may
>> be some 50 data units and then predict 51 using different models and it
>> choose the model which is close to the prediction of 51(the error
>> calculation model prediction subtracted by 51).
>> Finally the best model swarming has given is used to predict unknown data
>> i.e 101 or 102 or so on...
>>
>> Is this view correct?
>>
>>
>

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