4. Results
The errors from the above three methods are compared in Table 5. The results showed that the error
minimization capability of the ANN model (0.996%) outperformed the other two approaches
(2.80981% and 3.2604527%, respectively). However, the performance of ANN model was compared
with those of the ARIMA and MLR models by utilizing two dependent samples tests. Therefore, the
Wilcoxson signed-rank test and paired t-test were performed to assess the significant difference of the
errors from these pairs: ANN:MLR and ANN:ARIMA