RegressionMeasure.java

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package smile.validation;

/**
 * An abstract interface to measure the regression performance.
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public interface RegressionMeasure {

    /**
     * Returns an index to measure the quality of regression.
     * @param truth the true response values.
     * @param prediction the predicted response values.
     */
    public double measure(double[] truth, double[] prediction);
}