An Algorithm for Global Optimization Inspired by Collective Animal Behavior

Table 9

𝑃 values produced by Wilcoxon’s test comparing CAB versus RGA, PSO, GSA, and DE over the “average best-so-far” values from Table 8.

CAB versus	RGA	PSO	GSA	DE
𝑓24	0.0352	0.0312	0.0121	0.0389
𝑓25	0.0211	0.0237	0.0118	0.0311
𝑓26	0.0224	0.0238	0.0081	0.0301
𝑓27	0.0273	0.0231	0.0023	0.0308
𝑓28	0.0208	0.0198	0.0011	0.0210
𝑓29	0.0202	0.0219	0.0009	0.0258
𝑓30	0.0175	0.0165	0.0004	0.0221
𝑓31	0.0159	0.0166	0.0002	0.0208