Typo in the documentation of weigh argument to interval_score()

[mbojan]

I believe there is a typo in the documentation of interval_score() where it says

scoringutils/R/interval_score.R

Line 35 in 3f23387

#' @param weigh if TRUE, weigh the score by alpha / 4, so it can be averaged

while the theory e.g. eqs (1) and (2) of

Bracher, J., Wolffram, D., Deuschel, J., Görgen, K., Ketterer, J. L., Ullrich, A., Abbott, S., Barbarossa, M. V., Bertsimas, D., Bhatia, S., Bodych, M., Bosse, N. I., Burgard, J. P., Castro, L., Fairchild, G., Fuhrmann, J., Funk, S., Gogolewski, K., Gu, Q., … Schienle, M. (2021). A pre-registered short-term forecasting study of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland during the second wave. Nature Communications, 12(1), 5173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25207-0

and code, e.g.

scoringutils/R/interval_score.R

Line 99 in 3f23387

sharpness <- sharpness * alpha / 2

say it is rather alpha / 2, correct?

[nikosbosse]

Thank you very much for pointing this out! Yes alpha / 2 is correct and alpha / 4 was a typo. Will be fixing this together with a large package update in #166.