Research Article

Predicting Global Solar Radiation Using an Artificial Neural Network Single-Parameter Model

Table 4

Comparison between the MAPE of the proposed sunshine-based ANN model and seven existing ANN models.

ModelNumber of input parametersMAPE

Proposed ANN model11.97
Tymvios et al. [10]60.12
Alawi and Hinai [11]107.3
Mohandes et al. [5]416.4
Mihalakakou et al. [12]10.2
Reddy and Ranjan [13]94.07
Sozen et al. [14]66.7
Mubiru and Banda [6]60.3