Table 9.

Evaluate the statistical significance between two independent groups (thyroid and non-thyroid) by using the Mood's Median Test.

(Kaggle Dataset, UCI Dataset)
Employed classifiers	ALL features (α = 0.05)		UVS features (α = 0.05)		IGS features (α = 0.05)
	P-Value	SGNF	P-Value	SGNF	P-Value	SGNF
RF	(0.0347, 1.5678)	(✓, ✗)	(0.0716, 1.8182)	(✗, ✗)	(0.0377, 0.1001)	(✓, ✗)
DT	(0.7638, 1.3413)	(✗, ✗)	(0.0418, 0.1231)	(✓, ✗)	(0.0661, 1.4555)	(✗, ✗)
KNN	(1.4657, 0.9675)	(✗, ✗)	(0.2461, 0.3417)	(✗, ✗)	(0.0519, 0.0891)	(✗, ✗)
RDKVT	(0.0513, 0.0425)	(✗, ✓)	(0.0403, 0.0345)	(✓, ✓)	(0.0204, 0.0321)	(✓, ✓)
RDKST	(0.0123, 0.0321)	(✓, ✓)	(0.0112, 0.0214)	(✓, ✓)	(0.0041, 0.0035)	(✓, ✓)