Research Article

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

Table 6

Results of BNN_16 model with different periods of historical data.

Historic periodTraining set (60%)Test set (20%)Computing time (s)
MSERMAPEMSERMAPE
(%)(%)

1 month6.15e-29.61e-19.201.32e-19.14e-19.364
3 months9.94e-29.00e-111.731.54e-18.47e-111.924
Half year7.61e-28.91e-110.888.88e-28.76e-111.058
9 months8.26e-28.91e-110.769.05e-28.83e-110.8711
1 year8.28e-28.92e-110.638.89e-28.83e-110.5912