Table 3.

PERCENT PREDICTION ERROR: Flat Net, Feed Forward MLP and Functional-link Net (FLN) (28 input variables)

			Flat Net				FLN				Feed Forward MLP
		N	Mean1	SD	Min	Max	Mean1	SD	Min	Max	Mean1	SD	Min	Max
MDI	Set1	82	−1.8	39.3	−268.6	52.5	−2.3	43.6	−262	53.8	3.9	20.4	−41.2	72.5
	Set2	88	6.6	14.7	−26.0	54.1	−4.0	17.1	−45.9	49.3	−.7	16.0	−48.8	49.8
	Set3	81	5.0	18.1	−34.8	66.7	6.3	16.8	−28.1	59.1	−1.3	20.2	−78.8	50.7
	MEAN		3.3	24.0			0.0	25.8			.63	18.87
PDI	Setl	82	−1.6	24.3	−131.0	36.7	−9.1	36.1	−193.1	35.8	1.4	19.9	−55.3	70.0
	Set2	88	5,4	15.2	−26.6	37.8	1.9	16.4	−29.2	35.9	1.7	15.9	−41.2	32.2
	Set3	81	−1.2	21.9	−67.5	65.1	4.0	20.3	−63.7	50.6	−3.4	22.5	−105.2	42.4
	MEAN		0.9	20.5			−1.1	24.3			−0.1	19.4

¹Mean % error