Research Article

Assessment for Thermal Conductivity of Frozen Soil Based on Nonlinear Regression and Support Vector Regression Methods

Table 4

Statistics of prediction results of the ternary fitting model and SVR model.

Predictive modelStatistical valuesSilty claySiltWeathered rockFine sandGravel sandBoulderBreccia

Ternary fitting methodR20.760.790.90.910.930.870.78
MAPE ≤ 10%63.30%68%76.36%76%76.74%77.08%65.38%
26.6%22.88%16.78%19.62%22.11%19.73%25.3%

SVR modelR20.840.860.910.920.940.940.85
MAPE ≤ 10%74.74%83.64%72.55%78.43%79.07%83.33%69.81%
20.47%19.89%19.62%17.49%15.62%13.23%20.04%