Research Article

A Simple Method of Residential Electricity Load Forecasting by Improved Bayesian Neural Networks

Table 12

Performance results of prediction methods.

MethodCorresponding numberMSERMAETime (s)

Linear19.90e-020.750.202.10
Interactions Linear29.39e-020.770.204.79
Robust Linear31.05e-010.740.193.74
Stepwise Linear49.40e-020.770.201256.50
Fine Tree51.30e-010.680.227.09
Medium Tree61.09e-010.730.203.53
Coarse Tree71.01e-010.750.192.73
Linear SVM81.03e-010.750.1996.97
Quadratic SVM99.78e-020.760.19214.74
Cubic SVM109.25e-020.770.18828.17
Fine Gaussian SVM112.07e-010.490.29159.63
Medium Gaussian SVM129.05e-020.780.18112.76
Coarse Gaussian SVM139.88e-020.760.1978.12
Boosted Trees149.39e-020.770.1923.57
Bagged Trees158.45e-020.790.1754.57
BNN_16168.26e-020.890.189.33