Day-Ahead Wind Speed Forecasting Using Relevance Vector Machine

Table 2

Comparisons of test time and vector number for three models.

Month	BP		SVM		RVM
	Test time (s)	Number of vectors or neurons involved	Test time (s)	Number of vectors or neurons involved	Test time (s)	Number of vectors or neurons involved
March	677.56	300	639.24	216	302.48	33
June	1237.43	380	857.25	306	288.87	40
September	1002.86	340	641.91	320	293.85	35
December	835.03	320	506.29	202	288.66	31
Avg.	938.21	335	661.17	261	293.47	34.75