Table 3.

ANN architectures and the training epochs for the diabetes dataset.

	Initial Architecture		Intermediate Architecture		Final Architecture		No. of Epochs
	No. of Nodes	No. of Connections	No. of Nodes	No. of Connections	No. of Nodes	No. of Connections
Mean	11 (8-1-2)	10	13.1	31	12.1	19.7	306.4
Min	11 (8-1-2)	10	12.3	23	11.9	15	283
Max	11 (8-1-2)	10	13.9	38	13.2	24.4	329