For this purpose, mean square error (MSE) or mean absolute difference (MAD) computed between the original and the candidate blocks is used as a reliability measure.
Within each replicate, the two models gave almost identical posterior means of heritability (mean absolute difference was 3 * 10-3).
The deviances noted between the two female groups are remarkably small (mean absolute difference: 0.45 ± 0.35, n = 18).
The same is true of the male groups (mean absolute difference: 0.66 ± 0.41, n = 18; cf. Table 4 and Figures 7 and 8).
The mean absolute difference, the metric for reference venous blood glucose values <75 mg/dL, also improved significantly by use of the mean of four sensors compared with a single sensor (mean absolute difference 9.6 ± 1.0 vs. 14.1 ± 1.3 mg/dL, P < 0.001).
Relative risks estimated from inverse probability weighted models and multiply-imputed datasets differed by a mean absolute difference of 3%.
Results from completely unadjusted models were similar to results from adjusted models, with the estimated relative risks differing by a mean absolute difference of 6%.
In comparing the readings the nurse obtained from the two different tympanic thermometers, the mean absolute difference was 0.24 ± 0.22 °C.
The mean absolute difference (MAD) between the results of TNM and NN models for different locations are 0.5 °C for the sensible model and 0.2 gv/kga for the latent model, which indicates satisfactory agreement for energy exchange calculations.
c Mean absolute difference of exit wave between each iteration.
Mean absolute difference: MAD = ∑ y i − y ^ i / n (8).
