Ant Colony Optimisation for Backward Production Scheduling

Table 6

The 𝐹 test for the makespan variables.

	BB	ACO
Average	29.47	31.33
Variance	219.61	265.60
Observations	9	9
DOF (degrees of freedom)	8	8
𝐹𝑜	0.83
𝑃 (𝐹≤𝑓) uni-caudal	0.40
𝐹 critic uni-caudal (𝐹𝑐)	0.29