Table 3 The Wilcoxon signed-rank test for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection technique (bGGO) in comparison to existing binary optimization techniques.

From: Greylag goose optimization and multilayer perceptron for enhancing lung cancer classification

 

bGGO

bSC

bMVO

bPSO

bWOA

bGWO

bFOA

Theoretical median

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Actual median

0.7743

0.7915

0.8051

0.8253

0.8251

0.8116

0.8237

Number of values

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test

 Sum of signed ranks (W)

55

55

55

55

55

55

55

Sum of positive ranks

55

55

55

55

55

55

55

Sum of negative ranks

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

P value (two tailed)

0.002

0.002

0.002

0.002

0.002

0.002

0.002

Exact or estimate?

Exact

Exact

Exact

Exact

Exact

Exact

Exact

P value summary

**

**

**

**

**

**

**

Significant (alpha = 0.05)?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

How big is the discrepancy?

 Discrepancy

0.7743

0.7915

0.8051

0.8253

0.8251

0.8116

0.8237