“…Several approaches such as a manual method, a grid search method, a genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization and their combinations with grid search [23,6,13,12,25,24,14,45] have been proposed for the selection of user-defined parameters with SVM. In the present study, a manual method (carrying out a large number of trials by using different combinations of user-defined parameters with both modelling approaches) was used to select user-defined parameters (i.e., C, c, r, x, e and Gaussian noise).…”