Water Quality Modeling in Reservoirs Using Multivariate Linear Regression and Two Neural Network Models

Table 3

Performance evaluation during the training and testing phases for multilinear regression model.

Water quality variable	Training phase			Testing phase
	MAE	RMSE		MAE	RMSE
DO	1.81 mg/L	2.33 mg/L	0.67	1.81 mg/L	2.41 mg/L	0.64
TP	9.82 µg/L	15.29 µg/L	0.55	9.99 µg/L	14.70 µg/L	0.31
Chlorophyll a	3.96 µg/L	5.85 µg/L	0.50	4.18 µg/L	5.92 µg/L	0.55
SD	0.34 m	0.45 m	0.43	0.37 m	0.53 m	0.36