Table 2. Forecasting performance of the MLP model of AIDS in the full set.

Parameters	AIDS incidences				AIDS deaths
PCC threshold value	0.50	0.55	0.60	0.65	0.50	0.55	0.60	0.65
Number of neurons in input layer	14	8	4	2	31	21	18	13
Number of neurons in hidden layer	25	8	4	2	32	21	18	13
MAPE	0.0014	0.0014	0.0012	0.0016	8.8229e-04	0.0011	0.0034	0.0013
RMSPE	8.7619e-04	0.0039	0.0012	0.0022	00018	0.0012	0.0202	0.0031
IA	0.8596	0.8779	0.8985	0.8465	0.9232	0.9192	0.5868	0.8055

Note: The optimal results are highlighted in bold.