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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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305Model Development and Interpretation
MARE
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Nrefers to the total number of instances in a given data set
P
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A
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refers to the actual value of an instance i
7.6.3 PRED (A)
It is calculated from the relative error. It is dened as the ratio of the instances that have
an error value (absolute relative error [ARE]) less than or equal to “A” error divided by the
total number of instances in the data set. Given the lowest value of A, the higher the value
of Pred (A), the better it is as the prediction model. Generally, the value of “A” that is used
by most of the studies is 25%, 50 ...
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ISBN: 9781498719735