mean square error
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmean,squareanderror
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mean
adjective
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mainly UK
not willing to give or share things, ...
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square
adjective
uk/skweər/us/skwer/
having the shape of ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈer.ər/us/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition ofmean,squareanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Check whether the network's meansquareerroron a withheld subset of examples remains about the same (or even drops) and re-start training.
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However, as the constant equations are highly non-linear and cannot be simplified, in this work, an optimisation technique based on leastsquareerrorwas utilised.
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We performed the fits by minimizing the meansquareerrorbetween model prediction and cell firing rate.
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Without this adjustment the covariate variable could inflate the meansquareerrorand make differences in outcome harder to detect.
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The meansquareerrorstatistic was used as a measure of the quality of the estimated fit for each model.
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In general, our method outperformed regression (smaller meansquareerrorand confidence intervals of location estimate) for quantitative trait loci with dominance effects.
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The primitive that can be fitted with the minimum meansquareerroris selected.
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For both bias and meansquareerror, small values are desirable.
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Estimates of recombination that ignore interference can be biased, but may have smaller meansquareerror than estimates that rely on an estimated level of interference.
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The program.requires a set of positions of the poles and zeros as input and it relocates the poles and zeros so as to minimize the meansquareerror.
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It is common to determine curve shapes to minimize the meansquareerror, so it is appropriate that the goodness-of-fit calculation sums the squared errors.
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The attractiveness of different estimators can be judged by looking at their properties, such as unbiasedness, meansquareerror, consistency, asymptotic distribution, etc.
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This is to be contrasted with principal component analysis which seeks to minimize the meansquareerrorof all residuals.
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A mean of zero is needed for finding a basis that minimizes the meansquareerrorof the approximation of the data.
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The values in parentheses are mean square errors.
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Table 1 shows these fitting functions and their least square errors.
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