Research Article

Coal Price Forecasting and Structural Analysis in China

Table 5

Comparison results.

Prediction methodRMSEMAEMRE

April 2016 (VAR)1.39%4.81.07%
May 2016 (VAR)1.48%5.61.26%
June 2016 (VAR)1.46%5.51.23%
July 2016 (VAR)1.44%5.41.21%
FS-SVR [5]2.23%
SVM [5]7.27%

Notes: MAE indicates the mean absolute error and MRE indicates the mean relative error.