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 |