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Energies2018,11, 3283 Table6showstheMAPEofrandomforest foreachclusterunderdifferentmTryandthepredicted resultswith thebest accuracy aremarked inbold. Since the input variable is 9, sqrt and log2 are recognizedas3andtheresultsare thesame.Wechoose thesqrt that is commonlyused[16,43]. Table6.MAPEresultsof randomforest. Cluster# NumberofFeatures Auto sqrt log2 ClusterA 3.983 3.945 3.945 ClusterB 4.900 4.684 4.684 ClusterC 3.579 3.266 3.266 Figure6a–cshowtheuseof forestsof trees toevaluate the importanceof features inanartificial classificationtask. Thebluebarsdenotethefeature importanceof theforest,alongwiththeir inter-trees variability. In thefigure,LSTM,whichrefers to theLSTM-RNNthat reflects the trendofdayof the week,has thehighest impactonthemodelconfigurationforall clusters.Other featureshavedifferent impacts,dependingonthecluster type. (a) Cluster A (b) Cluster B Figure6.Cont. 131