Table 7 Comparative performance metrics of forecasting models for tomato prices using different sets of exogenous variables. Significant values are in bold.

From: Exogenous variable driven deep learning models for improved price forecasting of TOP crops in India

Tomato

Exogenous Variables

Models

RMSE

MAE

sMAPE

MASE

QL

Precipitation

ARIMAX

360.659

182.246

47.329

1.476

91.122

MLR

365.703

192.737

52.446

1.561

96.368

ANN

435.083

290.909

132.369

2.356

145.454

SVR

372.358

207.38

61.143

1.679

103.689

RFR

368.287

189.698

51.089

1.536

94.849

XGBoost

361.723

190.281

51.792

1.541

95.140

NBEATSX

256.362

135.449

36.141

1.080

67.724

TransformerX

313.344

170.212

38.305

1.157

70.106

Temperature

ARIMAX

365.852

183.604

47.717

1.487

91.801

MLR

370.087

193.713

52.543

1.569

96.856

ANN

422.271

265.619

103.662

2.151

132.809

SVR

384.234

212.308

62.890

1.719

106.153

RFR

389.481

223.598

69.728

1.811

111.799

XGBoost

366.138

193.418

53.468

1.566

96.709

NBEATSX

250.643

131.344

35.809

1.048

65.672

TransformerX

328.374

169.890

39.785

1.373

74.944

Precipitation and temperature

ARIMAX

360.724

182.590

47.527

1.479

91.295

MLR

365.855

192.992

52.579

1.563

96.495

ANN

437.087

269.665

106.365

2.184

134.832

SVR

371.917

206.442

60.835

1.672

103.221

RFR

366.681

204.230

61.815

1.654

102.115

XGBoost

358.634

188.106

51.299

1.523

94.052

NBEATSX

250.293

130.561

35.605

1.041

65.280

  1. Bold indicates the minimum error.