“…R 2 is one of the most used statistical measures in forecasting models, which determines the proportion of the variance for a predicted output explained by input variables in a forecasting model. R 2 evaluates the fit quality of the proposed model [ 94 ]. The formula to calculate R 2 is expressed as follows: where shows the predicted value, and yj shows the true value (j = 1,2, …,m).…”