Freshwater Algal Bloom Prediction by Support Vector Machine in Macau Storage Reservoirs

Table 2

Performance indexes of the prediction and forecast models.

Performance index	Prediction model				Forecast model
	Accuracy		Generalization		Accuracy		Generalization
	performance		performance		performance		performance
	(training set)		(testing set)		(training set)		(testing set)
	ANN	SVM	ANN	SVM	ANN	SVM	ANN	SVM
𝑅^2	0.752	0.760	0.749	0.758	0.758	0.863	0.760	0.863
RMSE	0.307	0.307	0.316	0.351	0.299	0.229	0.306	0.264
MAE	0.238	0.243	0.243	0.274	0.229	0.127	0.247	0.226