Research Article

Intelligent Prediction of the Construction Cost of Substation Projects Using Support Vector Machine Optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 3

Forecasting result of the ten test samples.

ProjectActual unit capacity cost (USD/kVA)Forecasting unit capacity cost (USD/kVA)Absolute errorRelative error (%)

Project I57.1159.172.063.61
Project II60.1756.903.285.44
Project III51.4653.231.773.43
Project IV56.8062.655.8510.30
Project V57.4255.591.823.17
Project VI51.3245.176.1511.98
Project VII47.3746.261.112.35
Project VIII35.6332.652.988.37
Project IX53.2448.454.799.00
Project X46.9048.962.064.40