Directed Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm to Solve the Nurse Rostering Problem

Table 12

Statistical analysis with respect to Average Convergence.

(a) ANOVA test

Source factor: Average Convergence
	Sum of squares	df	Mean square		Sig.
Between groups	712642.475	5	142528.495	15.47047	0.0000
Within groups	3758878.26	408	9212.9369
Total	4471520.73	413

(b) DMRT test

Duncan test: Average Convergence
Method		Subset for alpha = 0.05
		1	2
M4	69
M1	69		46.4245
M5	69		53.6879
M3	69		57.6296
M2	69		59.5103
MODBCO	69		81.6997
Sig.		1.00	0.054