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Compute standard forecast evaluation metrics: root mean squared error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean bias.

Usage

nc_evaluate(forecast, actual)

Arguments

forecast

Numeric vector of nowcast/forecast values.

actual

Numeric vector of realised values (same length as forecast).

Value

A data frame with one row and columns rmse, mae, and bias.

Examples

nc_evaluate(c(1.0, 2.0, 3.0), c(1.1, 1.8, 3.2))
#>        rmse       mae        bias
#> 1 0.1732051 0.1666667 -0.03333333