Research Article

An Extension of the Quadratic Error Function for Learning Imprecise Data in Multivariate Nonlinear Regression

Table 1

Comparison of statistical performances.

Error functionConstrained on the errors

Errors are centered, reduced, and uncorrelated0.5993.5860.6583.3650.8571.011
0.8194.6460.4522.8310.7830.845
0.5993.5860.6583.3650.8571.011
0.8194.6460.4522.8310.7830.845
0.6432.4340.7872.1050.9330.415
0.9022.9170.9291.7830.9450.326

Errors are centered, reduced, and correlated0.7052.7330.7721.7580.8210.681
0.4931.7340.5900.7180.6300.429
0.7982.0690.8321.3340.8990.511
0.5881.2400.6670.5260.7550.297
0.8051.5400.9011.2580.9120.426
0.6931.0110.7040.3330.9190.134

 = classical generalized least squares; = extension of generalized least squares proposed by1; = new extension of generalized least squares proposed by us; = coefficient of determination; = mean absolute percentage error.