Comparison of Statistical Downscaling Methods for Monthly Total Precipitation: Case Study for the Paute River Basin in Southern Ecuador

Table 5

Statistical metrics for ANN and LS-SVM ensembles.

Station	Metric	ANN	LS-SVM
El Labrado	Pearson correlation	0.49	0.58
	IRF	0.59	0.53
	Mean-bias	4.20	6.16
	Cum_bias	31.63	37.79
	RMSE	40.73	37.63
Gualaceo	Pearson correlation	0.70	0.71
	IRF	0.55	0.40
	Mean-bias	−2.29	−0.21
	Cum_bias	33.41	41.70
	RMSE	34.82	35.33
Paute	Pearson correlation	0.55	0.54
	IRF	0.41	0.31
	Mean-bias	−9.90	−8.34
	Cum_bias	44.16	48.21
	RMSE	31.61	31.04
Palmas	Pearson correlation	0.25	0.45
	IRF	0.45	0.53
	Mean-bias	−1.85	7.87
	Cum_bias	36.99	37.81
	RMSE	52.44	47.51
Biblián	Pearson correlation	0.67	0.65
	IRF	0.57	0.54
	Mean-bias	−18.39	−7.05
	Cum_bias	52.34	35.49
	RMSE	44.75	40.97