Table 5.

Network performance (R²).

No	Design MLP input-hidden-output	Training perf	Test perf	Validation perf
1	MLP 3-10-8	0.640	0.562	0.521
2	MLP 3-12-8	0.634	0.522	0.610
3	MLP 3-13-8	0.647	0.584	0.547
4	MLP 3-14-8	0.645	0.461	0.499
5	MLP 3-15-8	0.687	0.508	0.477
6	MLP 3-16-8	0.668	0.530	0.408
7	MLP 3-17-8	0.647	0.624	0.552
8	MLP 3-18-8	0.636	0.581	0.591
9	MLP 3-19-8	0.676	0.551	0.505
10	MLP 3-20-8	0.675	0.482	0.538