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.
| Model | Number of input parameters | MAPE |
| Proposed ANN model | 1 | 1.97 | Tymvios et al. [10] | 6 | 0.12 | Alawi and Hinai [11] | 10 | 7.3 | Mohandes et al. [5] | 4 | 16.4 | Mihalakakou et al. [12] | 1 | 0.2 | Reddy and Ranjan [13] | 9 | 4.07 | Sozen et al. [14] | 6 | 6.7 | Mubiru and Banda [6] | 6 | 0.3 |
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