Table 3.

Comparison of the performance of NM with other methodologies using Wilcoxon matched-pairs rank sum test

Dataset	Method	Rank sum (+, −)	p-value
Castor bean	J48	36.0, 0.0	0.008
	MLP	52.5, 2.5	0.005
	LibSVM	55, 0.0	0.002
Maize	J48	45.0, 0.0	0.004
	MLP	13.0, 23.0	0.32
	LibSVM	55.0, 0.0	0.002
Rice	J48	43.5, 1.5	0.006
	MLP	27.0, 18.0	0.367
	LibSVM	55.0, 0.0	0.002
Thale Cress	J48	55.0, 0.0	0.002
	MLP	45.0, 0.0	0.004
	LibSVM	55.0, 0.0	0.002
Wheat	J48	45.0, 0.0	0.004
	MLP	21.0, 0.0	0.015
	LibSVM	24.0, 4.0	0.04