Weighted average of (unscaled) unit Gamma deviance, see e.g. the reference below. Special case of Tweedie deviance with Tweedie parameter 2. The smaller the deviance, the better.
Usage
deviance_gamma(actual, predicted, w = NULL, ...)
Value
A numeric vector of length one.
Arguments
actual
Strictly positive observed values.
predicted
Strictly positive predicted values.
w
Optional case weights.
...
Further arguments passed to weighted_mean.
References
Jorgensen, B. (1997). The Theory of Dispersion Models. Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-0412997112.