Research Article

A Comparative Study of Some Regression Models to Estimate the Global Solar Radiation on a Horizontal Surface from Sunshine Duration and Meteorological Parameters for Ghardaïa Site, Algeria

Table 7

Annual validation of different models.

CCRMSEMBE

Linear0.4200.3630.7850.0453−0.0012
Quadratic0.4030.446−0.07370.7870.0451−0.0007
Logarithmic0.7010.1060.6270.07920.0281
Exponential0.2640.1980.7630.0511−0.0182
Abdalla0.5190.357−0.0018−0.001260.8980.0429−0.00059
Ojosu et al.0.4490.358−0.00445−0.006190.8920.0443−0.00068
Hargreaves et al.0.2610.1150.4310.0883−0.00073