Designing a Multistage Supply Chain in Cross-Stage Reverse Logistics Environments: Application of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms

Table 8

ANOVA verification of convergence time.

Algorithm	Total	Average	Variance
GA	4662.6	155.4	96.7
PSO_IWM	226.9	7.5	3.2
PSO_VMM	433.2	14.4	10.1
PSO_CFM	567.2	18.9	12.0
Hypothesis: 𝐻0∶𝐶𝑇GA =𝐶𝑇PSOA_IWM=𝐶𝑇PSOA_VMM=𝐶𝑇PSOA_CFM𝐻1∶otherwise
𝑃-value=3.25𝐸−122⇒𝐻0isrejected