A New Method for Spectral Wavelength Selection Based on Multiple Linear Regression Combined with Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm

Table 1

The results of different methods on the wheat protein dataset.

Method	RMSECV^a	RMSECV^b	nVar^a	nVar^b
Full	0.6093	—	100	—
SPA	0.6377	—	10	—
CARS	0.4839  0.0607	0.4076–0.6070	49.03  26.25	11–99
ACO	0.3754  0.0036	0.3667–0.3810	13.76  3.14	8–21
GA	0.4201  0.0071	0.4044–0.4350	43.96  7.44	30–59
DE	0.3906  0.0029	0.3845–0.3964	20.16  3.15	14–25
MLR-ACO	0.3641  0.0026	0.3605–0.3708	10	—
MLR-ACO-GA	0.3636  0.0023	0.3603–0.3694	10.5  1.6	8–14

^aStatistical results of mean ± standard deviation of 30 replicate simulations of different methods. ^bStatistical results of the variation range of 30 repeated simulations with different methods.