Research Article

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

Table 3

Results of IBNN models with different range of history data.

Model IBNN (Inputs number/Hidden neurons)Training set (60%)Test set (20%)Computing time (s)
MSERMAPE (%)MSERMAPE (%)

BNN_0.5hours (9/8)9.83e-28.71e-111.589.43e-28.71e-111.669
BNN_1hour (10/8)9.63e-28.72e-111.309.54e-28.76e-111.8810
BNN_2hours (12/8)9.46e-28.77e-111.451.00e-18.58e-112.3214
BNN_2days (13/8)8.83e-28.85e-110.808.62e-28.84e-110.3614
BNN_3days (14/8)8.66e-28.86e-110.658.45e-28.91e-110.6013
BNN_1week (15/8)8.37e-28.92e-110.648.97e-28.76e-110.6816
BNN_2weeks (16/8)8.43e-28.89e-110.638.57e-28.89e-110.5418
BNN_1month (18/8)8.30e-28.92e-110.817.96e-28.92e-110.3534
BNN_2months (22/8)7.44e-29.05e-110.678.30e-28.85e-111.4437