Absolute error can tell you the exact amount your forecast was off, while relative error is useful for comparing the accuracy of one forecast to another.

What this means is that even though both predictions were just $5 off from the actual price, the Amazon prediction was much more accurate, because it was closer to the actual price when ...

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