A Comparative Analysis of Nature-Inspired Optimization Approaches to 2D Geometric Modelling for Turbomachinery Applications

Table 6

Contrast estimation between averages of results considering all pairwise comparisons.

	RCGA	BGA	DE	PSO	IWO
RCGA	0	0.016	0.021	−0.619	−0.226
BGA	−0.016	0	0.005	−0.635	−0.243
DE	−0.021	−0.005	0	−0.64	−0.248
PSO	0.619	0.635	0.64	0	0.392
IWO	0.226	0.243	0.248	−0.392	0