mean squared error
Definition
One of the most common measures used to forecast accuracy in business analysis and supply chain management. It is an average of the squares of the difference between the actual observations and those predicted. The squaring of the errors tends to heavily weight statistical outliers, affecting the accuracy of the results.
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