Table 24 Wilcoxon signed-rank test results for PSC-MTLBO vs. Other TLBO variants p < 0.05, indicating statistical significance in favor of PSC-MTLBO.

From: Parallel sub class modified teaching learning based optimization

Benchmark function

PSC-MTLBO vs. TLBO (p-value)

PSC-MTLBO vs. CPSO-TLBO (p-value)

PSC-MTLBO vs. GA-PSO-TLBO (p-value)

PSC-MTLBO vs. FATLBO (p-value)

PSC-MTLBO vs. CATLBO (p-value)

Sphere

0.002

0.004

0.007

0.013

0.021

Rosenbrock

0.005

0.009

0.015

0.032

0.041

Rastrigin

0.003

0.006

0.012

0.018

0.028

Griewank

0.006

0.008

0.014

0.022

0.035

Ackley

0.004

0.005

0.011

0.019

0.029

Weierstrass

0.007

0.01

0.016

0.027

0.039

Schwefel

0.008

0.013

0.019

0.033

0.045

Zakharov

0.002

0.003

0.009

0.011

0.017

Dixon-price

0.005

0.007

0.014

0.021

0.034

Levy

0.006

0.008

0.015

0.024

0.037

Perm

0.007

0.011

0.018

0.029

0.042

Sum squares

0.002

0.004

0.009

0.016

0.025

Bent cigar

0.003

0.006

0.012

0.019

0.031

High conditioned elliptic

0.004

0.007

0.014

0.021

0.034

Cosine mixture

0.006

0.009

0.017

0.023

0.036