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> The mean square error value is calculated while the ANN is being trained. Some functions are implemented, to use and manipulate this error value. The
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> If <SPAN
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> When training with the <A
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error value is the mean square error for all the training data. Meaning that it is the average of all the square errors in each of the training pairs.
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