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. 2013 Jul 16;66:353–363. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.07.018

Table 4.

Calibration errors for the pre- and post-retrofit models and its requirement.

ASHRAE guideline 14 requirement Pre-retrofit energy model Post-retrofit energy model
Minimum period spanned by baseline data 12 months 12 months 10 months
CV(RMSE)a 15% 7.98% 8.50%
NMBEb 5% 4.55% 1.23%
a

CV(RMSE) = the coefficient of variation of the root mean squared errors.

b

NMBE = normalised mean bias error.