Prediction of water quality based on artificial neural network with grey theory

In this paper, the grey theory, three type of artificial neural network (back-propagation neural network, radial basis function neural network, and generalized regression neural network) and their combination were used to predict the pH values in the evaluation of water quality. Based on the measured data from the Xielugang in Jiaxin with the post-hoc analysis for the c and p values of the prediction, the results showed that the prediction by using the generalized regression neural network has the averaged relative error 0.61%, and c <0.65, p>0.7.