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GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError

GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError

class GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError(multioutput='uniform_average', multilevel='uniform_average', by_index=False)[source]

Geometric mean relative absolute error (GMRAE).

In relative error metrics, relative errors are first calculated by scaling (dividing) the individual forecast errors by the error calculated using a benchmark method at the same index position. If the error of the benchmark method is zero then a large value is returned.

GMRAE applies geometric mean absolute error (GMAE) to the resulting relative errors.

Parameters:
multioutput‘uniform_average’ (default), 1D array-like, or ‘raw_values’

Whether and how to aggregate metric for multivariate (multioutput) data.

  • If 'uniform_average' (default), errors of all outputs are averaged with uniform weight.

  • If 1D array-like, errors are averaged across variables, with values used as averaging weights (same order).

  • If 'raw_values', does not average across variables (outputs), per-variable errors are returned.

multilevel{‘raw_values’, ‘uniform_average’, ‘uniform_average_time’}

How to aggregate the metric for hierarchical data (with levels).

  • If 'uniform_average' (default), errors are mean-averaged across levels.

  • If 'uniform_average_time', metric is applied to all data, ignoring level index.

  • If 'raw_values', does not average errors across levels, hierarchy is retained.

by_indexbool, default=False

Controls averaging over time points in direct call to metric object.

  • If False (default), direct call to the metric object averages over time points, equivalent to a call of the evaluate method.

  • If True, direct call to the metric object evaluates the metric at each time point, equivalent to a call of the evaluate_by_index method.

References

Hyndman, R. J and Koehler, A. B. (2006). “Another look at measures of forecast accuracy”, International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 22, Issue 4.

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sktime.performance_metrics.forecasting import     GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError
>>> y_true = np.array([3, -0.5, 2, 7, 2])
>>> y_pred = np.array([2.5, 0.0, 2, 8, 1.25])
>>> y_pred_benchmark = y_pred*1.1
>>> gmrae = GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError()
>>> gmrae(y_true, y_pred, y_pred_benchmark=y_pred_benchmark)
np.float64(0.0007839273064064755)
>>> y_true = np.array([[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]])
>>> y_pred = np.array([[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]])
>>> y_pred_benchmark = y_pred*1.1
>>> gmrae(y_true, y_pred, y_pred_benchmark=y_pred_benchmark)
np.float64(0.5578632807409556)
>>> gmrae = GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError(multioutput='raw_values')
>>> gmrae(y_true, y_pred, y_pred_benchmark=y_pred_benchmark)
array([4.97801163e-06, 1.11572158e+00])
>>> gmrae = GeometricMeanRelativeAbsoluteError(multioutput=[0.3, 0.7])
>>> gmrae(y_true, y_pred, y_pred_benchmark=y_pred_benchmark)
np.float64(0.7810066018326863)

Methods

__call__(y_true, y_pred, **kwargs)

Calculate metric value using underlying metric function.

__call__(y_true, y_pred, **kwargs)[source]

Calculate metric value using underlying metric function.

Parameters:
y_truetime series in sktime compatible data container format.

Ground truth (correct) target values.

Individual data formats in sktime are so-called mtype specifications, each mtype implements an abstract scitype.

  • Series scitype = individual time series, vanilla forecasting. pd.DataFrame, pd.Series, or np.ndarray (1D or 2D)

  • Panel scitype = collection of time series, global/panel forecasting. pd.DataFrame with 2-level row MultiIndex (instance, time), 3D np.ndarray (instance, variable, time), list of Series typed pd.DataFrame

  • Hierarchical scitype = hierarchical collection, for hierarchical forecasting. pd.DataFrame with 3 or more level row MultiIndex (hierarchy_1, ..., hierarchy_n, time)

For further details on data format, see glossary on mtype. For usage, see forecasting tutorial examples/01_forecasting.ipynb

y_predtime series in sktime compatible data container format

Predicted values to evaluate against ground truth. Must be of same format as y_true, same indices and columns if indexed.

y_pred_benchmarkoptional, time series in sktime compatible data container format

Benchmark predictions to compare y_pred to, used for relative metrics. Required only if metric requires benchmark predictions, as indicated by tag requires-y-pred-benchmark. Otherwise, can be passed to ensure interface consistency, but is ignored. Must be of same format as y_true, same indices and columns if indexed.

y_trainoptional, time series in sktime compatible data container format

Training data used to normalize the error metric. Required only if metric requires training data, as indicated by tag requires-y-train. Otherwise, can be passed to ensure interface consistency, but is ignored. Must be of same format as y_true, same columns if indexed, but not necessarily same indices.

sample_weightoptional, 1D array-like, or callable, default=None

Sample weights for each time point.

  • If None, the time indices are considered equally weighted.

  • If an array, must be 1D. If y_true and y_pred``are a single time series, ``sample_weight must be of the same length as y_true. If the time series are panel or hierarchical, the length of all individual time series must be the same, and equal to the length of sample_weight, for all instances of time series passed.

  • If a callable, it must follow SampleWeightGenerator interface, or have one of the following signatures: y_true: pd.DataFrame -> 1D array-like, or y_true: pd.DataFrame x y_pred: pd.DataFrame -> 1D array-like.

Returns:
lossfloat, np.ndarray, or pd.DataFrame

Calculated metric, averaged or by variable. Weighted by sample_weight if provided.

  • float if multioutput="uniform_average" or array-like, and ``multilevel="uniform_average" or “uniform_average_time”``. Value is metric averaged over variables and levels (see class docstring)

  • np.ndarray of shape (y_true.columns,) if multioutput=”raw_values”` and multilevel="uniform_average" or "uniform_average_time". i-th entry is the, metric calculated for i-th variable

  • pd.DataFrame if multilevel="raw_values". of shape (n_levels, ), if multioutput="uniform_average"; of shape (n_levels, y_true.columns) if multioutput="raw_values". metric is applied per level, row averaging (yes/no) as in multioutput.