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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="identifier" qualifier="citation">Marandela, M. V. (2023). Comparative analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Global Solar Radiation at Selected Weather Stations in Vhembe District Municipality. University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa.&amp;lt;http://hdl.handle.net/11602/2654&amp;gt;.</dim:field>
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renewable technologies. Different equations have been applied as the most reliable empir­ ical for &#xd;
estimating global solar radiation(GSR) in different climatic conditions. The main objective of this &#xd;
work is to estimate the global solar radiation of two stations namely, Mu­ tale and Messina found &#xd;
in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Four different methods (Random forest(RF) &#xd;
regression, K-nearest neighour (K-NN), Support Vector Ma­ chines(SVM) and Extreme Gradient Boosting &#xd;
mechanism(XGBoost)) is used to estimate the&#xd;
GRS in this study. The RF model on Mutale station was found to be the best fitting model with R² = &#xd;
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description">Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="abstract" lang="en_ZA">hstimating anct assessing the energy talling in a particular area 1s essential tor installers ot&#xd;
renewable technologies. Different equations have been applied as the most reliable empir­ ical for &#xd;
estimating global solar radiation(GSR) in different climatic conditions. The main objective of this &#xd;
work is to estimate the global solar radiation of two stations namely, Mu­ tale and Messina found &#xd;
in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Four different methods (Random forest(RF) &#xd;
regression, K-nearest neighour (K-NN), Support Vector Ma­ chines(SVM) and Extreme Gradient Boosting &#xd;
mechanism(XGBoost)) is used to estimate the&#xd;
GRS in this study. The RF model on Mutale station was found to be the best fitting model with R² = &#xd;
0.9902, MSE = 0.4085 and RMSE = 0.6391, followed by XGB with R² = 0.9898, MSE = 0.4245 and RMSE = &#xd;
0.6515. RF was also found to be the best for Messina station with R² = 0.9636, MSE = 0.1.4138 and &#xd;
RMSE = 1.1890, followed by XGB model with R² = 0.9595, MSE = 1.5723 and RMSE = 1.2539. From the &#xd;
results, it can be concluded that&#xd;
RF is a better model for estimating GSR for different stations.</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh">Solar cells -- South Africa -- Limpopo</dim:field>
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