Effective Estimation of Hourly Global Solar Radiation Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Table 3

Comparison of feature selection methods and techniques used in previous studies and those used in the present study.

ML algorithm	Authors [Ref.]	Feature selection method/algorithm/application	Selection number of the best input data groups
ANN	Yadav et al. [42]	WEKA/J48	1
SVM-ANN	Meenal and Selvakumar [31]	WEKA/Greedy Stepwise	1
MLP-NNARX-ANFİS	Moghaddamnia et al. [36]	Gamma test	1
ANN	Ozgoren et al. [35]	MNLR	1
MARS	Li et al. [28]	Sensitivity analysis/MARS	1
ANN-SVM-KNN-MLR	Long et al. [34]	Linear, Pace, and SVM regression	3
BNN-GRNN-ANFIS	Lotfinejad et al. [30]	Principal component analysis	1
MFFNN-SVR-KNN-M5 rules	Present study	WEKA/6-feature selection function/10-ML algorithm/29-application	6