Table 3.

Summary of the results (performance measures) for the 2-day ahead K-SVR model for 4 random test weeks

Metric	Model	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Average
2-day ahead with weekend data
MAPE (%)	K-SVR	1.41	1.07	0.58	2.62	1.42
	K-SVR(3)	1.83	1.40	0.83	2.62	1.67
	ARIMA	3.87	2.62	8.25	3.13	4.47
MAE (bed/day)	K-SVR	4.87	3.61	2.08	9.01	4.89
	K-SVR(3)	6.33	4.75	2.94	8.98	5.75
	ARIMA	14.15	9.61	26.42	10.84	15.26
RMSE (bed/day)	K-SVR	6.88	4.51	2.36	9.32	5.77
	K-SVR(3)	7.74	5.06	3.39	9.92	6.99
	ARIMA	16.98	10.49	29.04	13.26	17.44
Error variance	K-SVR	2.10E−04	6.00E−05	0.00E+00	5.00E−05	8.00E−05
	K-SVR(3)	2.63E−04	6.13E−05	4.56E−05	2.76E−04	1.61E−04
	ARIMA	7.51E−04	1.56E−04	2.12E−03	5.91E−04	9.04E−04
2-day ahead without weekend data
MAPE (%)	K-SVR	3.18	4.10	2.75	3.33	3.34
	K-SVR(3)	6.21	4.32	6.17	5.98	5.67
	ARIMA	3.97	3.16	9.75	3.80	5.17
MAE (bed/day)	K-SVR	11.08	13.91	9.89	11.46	11.59
	K-SVR(3)	21.72	14.74	21.65	20.56	19.67
	ARIMA	14.41	11.32	30.98	12.97	17.42
RMSE (bed/day)	K-SVR	12.39	17.84	12.79	13.38	14.10
	K-SVR(3)	29.48	17.69	25.68	25.51	24.96
	ARIMA	16.73	12.43	38.59	14.52	20.57
Error variance	K-SVR	2.60E−04	1.12E−03	5.10E−04	4.00E−04	5.70E−04
	K-SVR(3)	3.02E−03	9.51E−04	1.43E−03	1.79E−03	1.80E−03
	ARIMA	6.41E−04	2.82E−04	7.28E−03	4.88E−04	2.17E−03