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

Table 8

Cooperative multi-input multilayer perceptron neural network performance analysis with different numbers of hidden neurons.

Number of hidden neurons	MSE	RMSE	MAE	MRE	MAPE		Time
1	0.000796	0.02816	0.0212	9.06-05	0.00906	1	62
2	0.000444	0.01356	0.00852	3.64-05	0.00364	1	79
3	4.232908	0.92518	0.50912	0.002174	0.217369	0.999994	81
4	0.000385	0.01384	0.00874	3.73-05	0.00372	1	93
5	0.041378	0.0991	0.08444	0.000359	0.03606	1	94
6	0.366643	12.17678	9.43732	0.040288	4.029396	0.998434	96
7	0.000454	0.0138	0.00796	3.39-05	0.003393	1	89
8	246.8467	9.82972	6.87858	0.029371	2.9369	0.9997	115
9	15.86092	1.82428	1.37158	0.005857	0.585612	0.999978	134
10	0.000388	0.01532	0.00908	3.87-05	0.001912	1	126
11	31.76393	2.53374	2.21096	0.009444	0.944001	0.999968	132
12	556.975	21.30572	16.49282	0.070431	7.04184	0.99765	168
13	0.178992	0.27126	0.1149	0.000492	0.04904	1	170
14	0.146489	0.23346	0.15304	0.000661	0.065321	1	180
15	918.2618	15.33193	11.45663	0.048914	4.891572	0.998336	145
16	4.322847	1.04584	0.499	0.002135	0.213068	0.999988	164
17	1.685976	0.59312	0.21158	0.000913	0.09034	0.999996	183
18	80.27228	5.475042	2.600365	0.011131	1.11027	0.999784	172
19	439.5626	9.41328	7.80156	0.033304	3.33094	0.999324	199
20	26.67178	2.94052	2.12062	0.009052	0.905444	0.999962	211

Bold implies the optimal result.