Table 5 Error functions models applied to investigate of the various isotherm models applicability.

From: Fabrication of N-doping activated carbons from fish waste and sawdust for Acid Yellow 36 dye removal from an aquatic environment

EM name

Error equation

Equation no.

ERRSQ

\(ERRSQ= \sum_{i=1}^{n}{\left({q}_{e,isotherm}-{q}_{e,cal}\right)}^{2}\)

(9)

HYBRID

\(Hybrid= \frac{100}{p-n} \sum_{i=1}^{p}\left(\frac{{\left({q}_{e, isotherm}-{q}_{e, cal}\right)}^{2}}{{q}_{e,isotherm}}\right)i\)

(10)

ARE

\(ARE= \frac{100}{n}+\sum_{i=1}^{n}\left|\frac{{q}_{e,isotherm}-{q}_{e,cal}}{{q}_{e,isotherm}}\right|i\)

(11)

EABS

\(EABS= \sum_{i=1}^{n}\left|{q}_{e,isotherm}-{q}_{e,cal}\right|i\)

(12)

MPSD

\(MPSD=100\times \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}{\left(\frac{{q}_{e, isotherm}-{q}_{e, cal}}{{q}_{e,isotherm}}\right)}^{2}}{n-p}}\)

(13)

X2

\({X}^{2}= \sum_{i=1}^{n}\left(\frac{\left(qemeas-qecal\right)^2}{qeexp}\right)\)

(14)

APE

\(APE\%= \frac{100}{n}\times \sum_{i=1}^{n}\left|\frac{{q}_{e,isotherm}-{q}_{e,cal}}{{q}_{e,isotherm}}\right|i\)

(15)

RMS

\(RMS=100\times \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}{\left(1-\frac{{q}_{e, cal}}{{q}_{e, isotherm}}\right)}^{2}}{n}}\)

(16)