A mass-market appraisal of the English housing rental market using a diverse range of modelling techniques

Journal of Big Data

Table 3 Goodness of fit (r²) during testing/fitting

Testing	PBA	GLM	GB	SVM	Cubist	MARS	Ensemble	Best MLA
Jan	0.55	0.56	0.62	0.56	0.65	0.47	0.67	0.68
Feb	0.53	0.55	0.61	0.57	0.64	0.50	0.65	0.64
Mar	0.48	0.49	0.52	0.48	0.56	0.43	0.57	0.58
Apr	0.52	0.55	0.58	0.55	0.65	0.47	0.65	0.64
May	0.41	0.44	0.48	0.44	0.50	0.39	0.51	0.52
Jun	0.53	0.59	0.63	0.60	0.67	0.52	0.68	0.68
Jul	0.55	0.58	0.66	0.61	0.66	0.53	0.69	0.69
Aug	0.51	0.53	0.58	0.56	0.62	0.48	0.63	0.62
Sep	0.52	0.57	0.64	0.57	0.68	0.51	0.69	0.68
Oct	0.49	0.56	0.59	0.57	0.63	0.49	0.64	0.63
Nov	0.52	0.57	0.63	0.54	0.64	0.48	0.66	0.66
Dec	0.51	0.56	0.61	0.57	0.66	0.51	0.67	0.60
All	0.51	0.54	0.59	0.55	0.63	0.48	0.64	0.64