“…According to the dephosphorization thermodynamics and practical operation in Consteel electric furnace, the end-point phosphorus content is mainly determined by 17 process variables, including the chemical composition of hot metal, hot metal weight, scrap weight, lime weight, dolomite weight, carbon powder weight, smelting cycle, limestone weight, oxygen consumption, natural gas consumption, electricity consumption, end-point C content and end-point temperature. Because the industrial data con-tains numerous noise data which would disturb the model construction and result in incorrect results, 14,15) box-plot method is employed in this paper to filter the exceptional data out, and for the preprocessed data, the main statistics information of the process parameters is shown in Table 1. The symbols from X 1 to X 17 present the input process variables, and Y is the output variable.…”