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ape: Calculate absolute percent error between actual and forecast.

Description

pe takes actual and forecast numeric vectors and returns a numeric vector where forecast is subtracted from the actual and then those errors are divided by the actuals. Lastly, the absolute value of those percent errors are taken.

Usage

ape(y_true = NULL, y_pred = NULL, actual = NULL, forecast = NULL)

Arguments

y_true
Ground truth (correct) target values.
y_pred
Estimated target values.
actual
a numeric vector of actuals.
forecast
a numeric vector of forecasts.

Value

a numeric vector of absolute percent errors.

Examples

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# Examples
ape(1:100, 100:1)

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