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Data and manuscript for project on phylogenetic dating of HIV latency
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Report root mean square error with time units #2

Closed ArtPoon closed 8 years ago

ArtPoon commented 9 years ago

RMSE is more intuitive than MSE because it is on the same scale as the variable for which we are attempting to quantify the dispersion (uncertainty in estimation). Since it is on the same scale we can also provide units. Since we are attempting to estimate dates, this should probably be days (?).