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An advantage of measuring forecast error based on the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) rather than the mean absolute deviation (MAD) is that MAPE does not depend on the scale of the data.Multiple ChoiceTrueFalse

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An advantage of measuring forecast error based on the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) rather than the mean absolute deviation (MAD) is that MAPE does not depend on the scale of the data.Multiple ChoiceTrueFalse

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