Prediction of Building Energy Consumption Based on BP Neural Network

Table 1

The trial and error results that the number of neurons in the hidden layer is controlled within the range of [3, 13].

Number of neurons	Error%	Number of neurons	Error%
3	13.66	8	12.74
4	14.65	9	14.36
5	16.06	10	14.15
6	12.88	11	15.57
7	11.18	12	16.03
8	9.25	—	—