Research Article

Forecasting Daily and Monthly Reference Evapotranspiration in the Aidoghmoush Basin Using Multilayer Perceptron Coupled with Water Wave Optimization

Table 4

Training level for the statistical results related to soft computing models based on the daily scale.

IndexMAE (mm)PBIASNSE

Training level
MLP-WWO3.120.140.94
MLP-PSO3.190.350.91
MLP-GA3.220.370.89
MLP3.250.390.85

Testing level
MLP-WWO5.150.170.92
MLP-PSO5.220.470.90
MLP-GA5.280.490.87
MLP5.320.510.84