Development of Artificial Neural-Network-Based Models for the Simulation of Spring Discharge

Table 4

Comparison of the best ANN and LMR models.

Model inputs	No. of inputs	ANN quick propagation		LMR model
		R	DC	R	DC
Qt−1, Rt, Rt−1, Et, Et−1, Tt, Tt−1	7	0.983	0.964	0.970	0.941
Qt−1, Qt−2, Rt, Rt−1, Rt−2, Et, Et−1, Et−2, Tt, Tt−1, Tt−2	11	0.990	0.960	0.976	0.948