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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2011 Jun 1;106(494):387–395. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2011.ap09764

Table 5.

Average of the root mean squared predition error (RMSPE) and mean absolute prediction error (MAPE) over 30 partitions by method. The out-of-sample statistics of the Bayesian hierarchical model (BHM-firm) that estimates term structures by firm are 60% smaller than those by rating class obtained with the single-curve approach (SC-rating).

RMSPE MAPE
BHM-firm 3.20 2.14
SC-rating 8.34 5.46
Relative Difference −62% −61%