Table 17 Results of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for the IEEECEC2022 test functions, at a significance level of 5%.

From: An enhanced opposition-based African vulture optimizer for solving engineering design problems and global optimization

Function

EOBAVO vs HHO

EOBAVO vs MGO

EOBAVO vs HGS

EOBAVO vs INFO

P value

H

P value

H

P value

H

P value

H

CEC01

1.73E−07

+

1.00E−01

−

1.16E−07

+

1.02E−06

+

CEC02

1.83E−07

+

NA

−

7.43E+00

−

1.02E−06

+

CEC03

1.38E−06

+

NA

−

1.78E−06

+

1.83E−07

+

CEC04

1.57E−06

+

1.30E−07

+

1.00E−07

+

1.76E−01

−

CEC05

1.58E−06

+

1.10E−06

+

1.58E−07

+

2.07E−01

−

CEC06

NA

−

1.76E−06

+

1.26E−07

+

1.64E−01

−

CEC07

NA

−

1.60E−07

+

1.23E−06

+

6.08E−01

−

CEC08

1.88E−06

+

1.55E−06

+

1.10E−06

+

1.73E−07

+

CEC09

1.53E−06

+

1.64E−06

+

1.96E−07

+

1.13E−06

+

CEC10

1.87E−07

+

1.18E−06

+

1.63E−06

+

1.18E−06

+

CEC11

1.94E−06

+

1.51E−06

+

1.73E−07

+

1.78E−06

+

CEC12

1.41E−06

+

1.34E−06

+

1.91E−06

+

1.51E−06

+