calc_summary_statistics {ubair}R Documentation

Calculates summary statistics for predictions and true values

Description

Helps with analyzing predictions by comparing them with the true values on a number of relevant summary statistics.

Usage

calc_summary_statistics(predictions, date_effect_start = NULL, buffer = 0)

Arguments

predictions

Data.table or data.frame with the following columns

date

Date of the observation. Needs to be comparable to date_effect_start element.

value

True observed value of the station

prediction

Predicted model output for the same time and station as value

date_effect_start

A date. Start date of the effect that is to be evaluated. The data from this point onwards is disregarded for calculating model performance

buffer

Integer. An additional buffer window before date_effect_start to account for uncertainty in the effect start point. Disregards additional buffer data points for model evaluation

Value

data.frame of summary statistics with columns true and prediction


[Package ubair version 1.1.0 Index]