Table 2.

Summary of the results (performance measures) for K-SVR model for 4 random test weeks

Metric	Model	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Average
1-day ahead with weekend data
MAPE (%)	K-SVR	0.93	1.19	0.49	1.81	1.11
	K-SVR(3)	0.76	1.49	0.73	2.40	1.35
	ARIMA	3.45	2.64	2.86	4.22	3.29
MAE (bed/day)	K-SVR	3.25	4.01	1.76	6.24	3.81
	K-SVR(3)	2.69	5.03	2.65	8.30	4.67
	ARIMA	11.89	8.92	10.19	14.47	11.37
RMSE (bed/day)	K-SVR	3.46	5.45	1.90	6.64	4.36
	K-SVR(3)	3.15	6.31	3.32	9.08	5.98
	ARIMA	13.68	9.87	10.55	15.27	12.34
Error variance	K-SVR	1.00E−05	1.20E−04	0.00E+00	4.00E−05	5.00E−05
	K-SVR(3)	2.12E−05	1.27E−04	2.86E−05	1.14E−04	7.27E−05
	ARIMA	5.16E−04	2.05E−04	6.67E−05	2.68E−05	2.04E−04
1-day ahead with weekend data
MAPE (%)	K-SVR	2.55	1.02	0.88	2.65	1.78
	K-SVR(3)	1.85	0.92	0.65	3.39	1.70
	ARIMA	3.42	2.05	2.96	4.00	3.11
MAE (bed/day)	K-SVR	8.91	3.45	3.13	9.11	6.15
	K-SVR(3)	6.33	3.19	2.30	11.65	5.87
	ARIMA	11.69	7.08	10.41	13.75	10.73
RMSE (bed/day)	K-SVR	11.74	4.33	3.93	9.65	7.41
	K-SVR(3)	8.11	3.61	3.01	12.05	7.63
	ARIMA	14.56	10.06	12.40	15.22	13.06
Error variance	K-SVR	4.60E−04	1.00E−05	4.00E−05	9.00E−05	1.50E−04
	K-SVR(3)	2.34E−04	2.91E−05	3.12E−05	9.25E−05	9.67E−05
	ARIMA	8.35E−04	5.07E−04	4.78E−04	4.58E−04	5.69E−04