Greetings,
I’m seeking inspiration in creating a scoring (figure of merit) function that can evaluate how close a set of parallel measurements are to a set of truth values. The truth values aren’t a statistical mean per say, but rather target values being sought. A set of measurements together represent a measured state which is compared to a desired “truth” state. Each new measurement is independent of the previous one.
I’m neither predicting nor estimating states but rather evaluating the aggregate error of a set of events occurring at the same discrete time instant. Each event is in its own dimension/domain. So it’s a little like seeking the correlation coefficient in a regression analysis but data isn’t being fitted because truth data already exists, the data is at one time-point across a plurality of axes, and we just want to peek at the quality of the measurement.
I thought I could compute a sample variance using each dimension’s truth value as the sample mean, but I don’t know if that’s mathematically sound.
Ideally, I’d like a score with a bounded range ... something like the correlation coefficient in range 0.0 to 1.0 (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CorrelationCoefficient.html).
Is anyone able to help?
Spark
I’m seeking inspiration in creating a scoring (figure of merit) function that can evaluate how close a set of parallel measurements are to a set of truth values. The truth values aren’t a statistical mean per say, but rather target values being sought. A set of measurements together represent a measured state which is compared to a desired “truth” state. Each new measurement is independent of the previous one.
I’m neither predicting nor estimating states but rather evaluating the aggregate error of a set of events occurring at the same discrete time instant. Each event is in its own dimension/domain. So it’s a little like seeking the correlation coefficient in a regression analysis but data isn’t being fitted because truth data already exists, the data is at one time-point across a plurality of axes, and we just want to peek at the quality of the measurement.
I thought I could compute a sample variance using each dimension’s truth value as the sample mean, but I don’t know if that’s mathematically sound.
Ideally, I’d like a score with a bounded range ... something like the correlation coefficient in range 0.0 to 1.0 (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CorrelationCoefficient.html).
Is anyone able to help?
Spark