Research Article

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

Table 4

Three input multilayer perceptron neural network performance analyses with a different number of hidden neurons.

Number of hidden neuronsMSERMSEMAEMREMAPETime

17.5132-042.7400-022.1500-029.1951-059.2000-03162
22.2009-054.7000-033.1000-031.3413-051.3000-03184
33.7842-061.9000-031.3000-035.4536-065.4536-04171
43.2406-055.7000-033.8000-031.6203-051.6000-031117
51.9311-041.3900-027.1000-033.0474-053.0000-031125
61.3315-053.6000-032.3000-039.7935-069.7935-041120
75.7396-062.4000-031.5000-036.3661-066.3661-04199
87.6763-058.8000-035.0000-032.1517-052.2000-031116
92.9000-035.4300-029.9000-034.2146-054.2000-031124
109.9727-051.0000-026.5000-032.7714-052.8000-031111
115.9904-062.4000-031.7000-037.0656-067.0656-041101
122.9376-055.4000-033.3000-031.4139-051.4000-031150
133.9100-021.9780-012.8700-021.2250-041.2300-021161
143.6238-061.9000-031.2000-035.0432-065.0432-041101
152.4000-034.8700-021.1700-024.9846-055.0000-031167
168.8000-039.3600-021.3500-025.7755-055.8000-031206
174.6900-042.1700-027.8000-033.3439-053.3000-031204
189.4980-083.0819-041.2680-045.4138-075.4138-051156
191.2000-033.5200-029.6000-034.0829-054.1000-031159
209.3967-043.0700-029.5000-034.0628-054.1000-031195

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