Research Article

Predictive Ability of Improved Neural Network Models to Simulate Pollutant Dispersion

Table 3

Performance statistics of ANN models on the validation data set (Dhaka).

ModelNumber of epochs RMSE

ANN-MT-CO (18 : 4 : 1)18000.0010.61.890.69
ANN-M-CO (12 : 4 : 1)13000.0010.42.180.63
ANN-T-CO (6 : 4 : 1)3000.0010.73.390.40
ANN-MT-PM10 (18 : 4 : 1)17000.0010.72.080.73
ANN-M-PM10 (12 : 4 : 1)14000.0010.32.410.54
ANN-T-PM10 (6 : 4 : 1)3000.0010.63.090.39
ANN-MT-PM2.5 (18 : 4 : 1)16000.0010.62.460.67
ANN-M-PM2.5 (12 : 4 : 1)13000.0010.42.410.51
ANN-T-PM2.5 (6 : 4 : 1)3000.0010.62.890.40