Research Article

New Insights into the Drill Cutting Characteristics and Fault Distribution in Gas-Containing Coal Seams

Table 3

Network information.

Input layerCovariates1Nonuniformity coefficient
2Curvature coefficient
3Average particle size
4Distribution modulus
5Characteristic particle size
6F value
7Particle strength
8Quantity of drill cuttings
Number of unitsa8
Rescaling method of covariatesStandardized
Hidden layerNumber of hidden layers1
Number of units in hidden layer 1a3
Activation functionHyperbolic tangent
Output layerDependent variablesHyperbolic tangent fault
Number of units2
Rescaling method of scale dependentsStandardized
Activation functionSoftmax
Error functionCross entropy
Model summaryTrainingCross entropy error0.262
Percent incorrect predictions0%
Stopping rule used1 consecutive steps with no decrease in errorb
TestingCross entropy error1.476
Percent incorrect predictions16.7%

aExcluding the basis unit. bError computations are based on the testing sample.