Research Article

Evaluation of Temperature-Based Empirical Models and Machine Learning Techniques to Estimate Daily Global Solar Radiation at Biratnagar Airport, Nepal

Table 3

Statistical indicators for ANN models.

Number of hidden neuronsRMSE
TrainingValidationTrainingValidation

3 (ANN1)2.00011.85470.76100.7240
4 (ANN2)1.82211.80280.79030.7911
6 (ANN3)1.68232.19540.83410.7397
8 (ANN4)2.15641.60000.80000.8479
10 (ANN5)1.49671.82210.84850.8507