Research Article

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

Table 5

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

Number of hidden neuronsMSERMSEMAEMREMAPETime

17.4471-042.7300-022.1600-029.2146-059.2000-03166
23.0940-055.6000-033.8000-031.6033-051.6000-03191
32.6547-055.2000-033.7000-031.5660-051.6000-03196
42.1062-054.6000-033.1000-031.3174-051.3000-031105
51.3344-053.7000-032.5000-031.0689-051.1000-03184
62.3965-054.9000-033.4000-031.4307-051.4000-03142
76.8545-062.6000-031.7000-037.2897-067.2897-04150
83.9139-056.3000-034.0000-031.7231-051.7000-03169
95.2354-062.3000-031.5000-036.3354-066.3354-041135
107.5525-062.7000-031.8000-037.6150-067.6150-041137
118.4789-059.2000-035.4000-032.3004-052.3000-031151
121.4577-041.2100-027.3000-033.0965-053.1000-031196
134.1533-042.0400-026.9000-032.9265-052.9000-031178
141.6703-041.2900-025.4000-032.3216-052.3000-031253
156.2997-082.5099-041.4464-046.1756-076.1756-05170
162.0957-054.6000-031.6000-037.0276-067.0276-041139
172.4974-061.6000-036.9899-042.9845-062.9845-041174
187.1545-058.5000-034.7000-032.0092-052.0000-031247
195.2397-042.2900-025.5000-032.3429-052.3000-031218
201.1324-053.4000-031.9000-038.1852-068.1852-041212

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