Table 3.

Pairwise comparison between the AUC of the classifiers using Student’s t-test

	IELM-PSO vs SVM	IELM-PSO vs BPN	SVM vs BPN
MSE error	0.00954	0.0256	0.0102
95 % confidence interval (CI)	0.0854–0.134	0.0724–0.0154	−0.0179–0.032
Significance level	p < 0.05	p < 0.05	p = 0.793
Difference in AUC curve	0.08	0.03	0.02