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Table 4 Best results (lowest RAE) of all prediction methods for three periods and three different feature’s sets

From: Improving trend analysis using social network features

Method/Period

All attributes

Manual selection

Relief

Linear Reg. 91–11

72.18%

ANN 91–11

72.95%

73.43%

73.44%

SVM 91–11

65.21%

62.21%

64.15%

Rot. Forest 91–11

71.51%

70.57%

71.18%

Linear Reg. 02–11

53.22%

RNA 02–11

45.75%

46.25%

46.23%

SVM 02–11

43.45%

41.05%

41.30%

Rot. Forest 02–11

40.29%

40.04%

40.12%

Linear Reg. 07–11

62.76%

RNA 07–11

57.77%

59.02%

57.98%

SVM 07–11

53.31%

52.37%

51.22%

Rot. Forest 07–11

41.68%

39.28%

40.33%

  1. The italicized data refers to the best result of each period