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Table 4 p-values for Wilcoxon sum test with Bonferroni correction in NEJM format and Cohen’s d effect size interpretation for hill climbing versus simulated annealing run on Table 3 dataset

From: Euler diagrams drawn with ellipses area-proportionally (Edeap)

 

Area difference

Objective function

Evaluated solutions

Time

p-values

0.71

0.63

< .001 (***)

< .001 (***)

Cohen d effect size

–

–

1 (large)

1.03 (large)

  1. Following the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) practice [28], we regard p-values of less than 0.05 as statistically significant with one asterisk, p-values of less than 0.01 with two asterisks, and p-values less than 0.001 with three asterisks