Table 18.

Performance indicators for the developed forecast models.

Stations	Metric	FFMLP	GA-MLP	MLPnomet	MLR
Station 1	MAE	14.03	15.36	18.91	17.46
	RMSE	20.28	22.39	27.87	26.68
	R	0.78	0.73	0.53	0.59
	IA	0.87	0.83	0.65	0.72
Station 2	MAE	14.18	14.48	16.99	17.37
	RMSE	19.36	19.26	22.47	23.90
	R	0.70	0.65	0.48	0.53
	IA	0.80	0.79	0.63	0.65
Station 3	MAE	19.08	20.55	27.49	24.53
	RMSE	26.06	28.70	38.11	35.14
	R	0.80	0.73	0.43	0.55
	IA	0.88	0.83	0.56	0.64
Station 4	MAE	7.68	7.54	10.25	11.94
	RMSE	12.35	12.16	16.62	17.06
	R	0.82	0.83	0.54	0.55
	IA	0.89	0.90	0.65	0.65