Research Article

Student Enrollment and Teacher Statistics Forecasting Based on Time-Series Analysis

Table 3

Performance comparison of different forecasting models for student enrollment dataset.

Number of studentsCriteriaARIMAETSTBATSGRIDSVRPSOSVRWOASVR

Primary schoolPublicMAPE (%)3.5712.893.116.651.610.86
RMSE47989.51159243.6540320.5486053.3321606.2812787.62
PrivateMAPE (%)3.127.167.956.061.461.07
RMSE1243.262626.753439.162761.55739.57528.48

Secondary schoolPublicMAPE (%)6.0315.5916.538.746.005.57
RMSE40912.0098097.44116066.7474626.5640615.2139029.75
PrivateMAPE (%)2.143.403.723.612.461.85
RMSE2233.163421.014051.423522.102418.492049.95

High schoolPublicMAPE (%)2.152.552.034.801.951.71
RMSE12232.9114061.6711797.8122763.4812199.8811762.71
PrivateMAPE (%)7.687.517.557.566.754.16
RMSE33472.7530483.3732005.3732036.2630279.4317782.32

UniversityPublicMAPE (%)0.240.890.911.610.220.2
RMSE1181.904188.084933.257319.071208.031105.6
PrivateMAPE (%)5.063.569.434.873.801.36
RMSE50997.5439093.1395690.9756050.4048495.1915621.16

AveragePublicMAPE (%)3.007.985.655.452.452.09
RMSE25579.0868897.7143279.5947690.6118907.3516171.42
PrivateMAPE (%)4.505.417.165.533.622.11
RMSE21986.6818906.0733796.7323592.5820483.178995.48

ARIMA, autoregressive integrated moving average; ETS, exponential smoothing; TBATS, Trigonometric Seasonal Box–Cox Transformation with ARMA residuals Trend and Seasonal Components; GRIDSVR, grid search support vector regression; PSOSVR, particle swarm optimization support vector regression; WOASVR, whale optimization algorithm support vector regression; boldface, the best values in each row.