Table 9.

Nemenyi’s statistical test for seven groups of BFs (Control Algorithm: HO).

Algorithms	Functions
	F1-F23	ZP	CEC 2019	CEC 2014 (10)	CEC 2014 (30)	CEC 2014 (50)	CEC 2014 (100)
HO vs. WOA	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. GWO	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. SSA	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. PSO	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
HO vs. SCA	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. FA	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. GOA	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. TLBO	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. CMA-ES	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. MFO	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. AOA	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
HO vs. IWO	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅