The Forecaster Who Uses MSD (Mean Squared Deviations)to Measure the Effectiveness

question 130

True/False

The forecaster who uses MSD (mean squared deviations)to measure the effectiveness of forecasting methods would prefer method 1 that results in several smaller forecast errors to method 2 that results in one large forecast error equal to the sum of the absolute values of several small forecast errors given by method 1.

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