Research Article

Novel Cooperative Multi-Input Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Performance Analysis with Application of Solar Irradiance Forecasting

Table 3

Two input multilayer perceptron neural network performance analyses with different numbers of hidden neurons.

Number of hidden neuronsMSERMSEMAEMREMAPETime

15.9621-042.4400-021.8400-027.8434-057.8000-03158
22.5732-055.1000-033.5000-031.4916-051.5000-03165
32.0864-054.6000-033.1000-031.3117-051.3000-03172
43.2662-055.7000-033.7000-031.5963-051.6000-03163
59.9427-051.0000-025.8000-032.4773-052.5000-03184
63.2997-055.7000-034.0000-031.7155-051.7000-03195
71.0345-053.2000-032.1000-039.0101-069.0101-04194
83.9008-056.2000-034.3000-031.8411-051.8000-031115
91.0326-053.2000-031.9000-038.2489-068.2489-041123
102.3071-054.8000-032.5000-031.0649-051.1000-031130
114.6940-056.9000-034.3000-031.8278-051.8000-031138
121.7479-054.2000-032.6000-031.1246-051.1000-031143
131.4382-041.2000-026.4000-032.7454-052.7000-031149
147.3628-058.6000-034.7000-032.0134-052.0000-031158
158.8216-059.4000-034.9000-032.0812-052.1000-031167
161.5738-054.0000-032.2000-039.3960-069.3960-041174
177.2175-062.7000-031.6000-037.0335-067.0335-041181
184.3428-056.6000-031.6000-036.9534-066.9534-041186
195.9552-042.4400-021.3500-025.7478-055.7000-031195
203.2674-055.7000-032.7000-031.1551-051.2000-031175

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