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Your evaluation metric is mean absolute error and the target is heavily skewed. Which constant prediction is the right naive baseline?
- AThe mean of the target
- BThe median
- CZero, since a baseline should contain no information
- DThe maximum observed value, to be conservative about large outcomes
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