Fabio Veronesi shows several methods of testing model accuracy:
Mean Squared Deviation or Mean Squared Error
This is simply the numerator of the previous equation, but it is not used often. The issue with both the RMSE and the MSE is that since they square the residuals they tend to be more affected by large residuals. This means that even if our model explains the large majority of the variation in the data very well, with few exceptions; these exceptions will inflate the value of RMSE.
Click through for several calculations. H/T R-bloggers