An Algorithm for Global Optimization Inspired by Collective Animal Behavior

Table 6

𝑃 values produced by Wilcoxon’s test comparing CAB versus RGA, PSO, GSA, and DE over the “average best-so-far” values from Table 5.

CAB versus	RGA	PSO	GSA	DE
𝑓8	0.89	8.38×10^−4	1.21×10^−4	4.61×10^−4
𝑓9	7.23×10^−7	1.92×10^−9	5.29×10^−8	9.97×10^−8
𝑓10	6.21×10^−9	4.21×10^−5	1.02×10^−4	3.34×10^−4
𝑓11	7.74×10^−9	3.68×10^−7	4.10×10^−7	8.12×10^−5
𝑓12	1.12×10^−8	8.80×10^−9	2.93×10^−7	4.02×10^−8
𝑓13	4.72×10^−9	3.92×10^−5	0.93	2.20×10^−4