Table 4.

Comparison of the values of AARD% for the proposed model and literature models for each of the investigated DESs.

DES	Proposed Model	Haghbakhsh et al.’s Model [24]	Hekayati and Esmaeilzadeh’s Model [28]	Gardas and Coutinho’s Model [27]	Singh and Singh’s Model [29]
DES1	13.9	14.5	8.6	15.0	4.9
DES2	7.5	16.6	3.6	9.0	11.8
DES3	1.3	17.6	2.6	1.3	31.6
DES4	5.8	2.4	8.1	5.2	33.0
DES5	1.8	3.3	6.6	7.1	36.5
DES6	0.9	8.3	5.0	9.3	43.8
DES7	5.4	9.0	4.7	14.2	84.5
DES8	0.7	68.8	2.8	1.9	27.2
DES9	1.1	1.4	3.6	1.1	28.0
DES10	2.8	7.0	2.1	2.9	32.1
DES11	4.6	7.6	0.9	6.8	76.5
DES12	1.9	2.7	3.6	3.6	4.4
DES13	2.5	1.8	4.8	1.2	26.1
DES14	8.9	22.0	11.9	13.7	54.0
DES15	1.3	9.0	2.1	10.9	77.4
DES16	1.6	1.3	4.6	2.8	37.4
DES17	12.5	7.6	16.7	20.1	82.7
DES18	2.8	2.0	4.9	1.0	15.8
DES19	1.1	1.4	0.8	3.8	29.6
DES20	2.4	1.5	1.8	6.2	79.5
DES21	12.6	25.2	10.4	15.5	7.8
DES22	4.7	10.4	2.6	7.9	13.8
DES23	8.1	5.2	4.5	4.1	66.2
DES24	1.0	4.7	4.6	3.6	55.2
DES25	21.4	25.5	25.7	19.5	19.1
DES26	2.5	11.6	8.8	4.0	36.6
DES27	4.5	4.6	2.7	1.3	18.9
DES28	5.9	3.6	3.7	4.2	30.9
DES29	8.7	1.3	4.0	4.5	26.4
DES30	3.9	6.8	2.6	2.7	39.3
DES31	3.3	15.4	31.7	25.5	36.0
DES32	7.1	6.6	27.3	25.3	39.1
DES33	7.7	13.1	29.0	19.5	22.7
DES34	2.1	11.6	26.1	18.9	23.5
DES35	9.2	3.1	24.3	17.8	36.8
DES36	2.6	5.7	19.7	13.3	26.7
DES37	21.2	2.6	28.0	20.8	53.8
DES38	6.0	2.2	12.8	13.7	56.8
DES39	4.8	2.6	7.8	13.1	75.8
Total	5.4	9.7	8.8	9.1	40.8