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deviance_gamma: Gamma Deviance

Description

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.

See Also

deviance_tweedie.

Examples

Run this code
deviance_gamma(1:10, c(1:9, 12))
deviance_gamma(1:10, c(1:9, 12), w = 1:10)

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