Research Article

Assessing Dry Weight of Hemodialysis Patients via Sparse Laplacian Regularized RVFL Neural Network with L2,1-Norm

Table 2

Comparison on existing methods via 10-fold cross-validation.

Method squaredRMSEEmpirical cumulative distribution plot
Highest valueLowest valueMedian value

BCM0.94730.91371.96943.2235-6.2776-0.9863
LR0.94030.93081.43354.2524-4.40140.1418
ANN (BP)0.93980.92951.47947.3661-4.74470.1324
MKRR0.93990.92891.50154.9227-4.26040.1104
MKSVR0.94120.93211.38174.3962-4.12730.0082
RVFL0.93890.93001.38286.7004-4.35570.0704
SLapRVFL (our method)0.96320.95011.31363.1940-3.50660.1014

The results are from previous work on MKSVR [39].