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

Table 3

The results of different methods on the corn protein dataset.

Method	RMSECV^a	RMSECV^b	nVAR^a	nVAR^b
Full	0.0735	—	700	—
SPA	0.4250	—	2	—
CARS	0.0440  0.0314	0.0202–0.1483	50.16  14.73	29–83
ACO	0.0276  0.0037	0.0201–0.0338	150.9  12.03	119–172
GA	0.0428  0.0028	0.0386–0.0503	341.3  13.46	317–365
DE	0.0330  0.0013	0.0359–0.0306	329.06  12.45	308–357
MLR-ACO	0.0059  0.0020	0.0024–0.0118	65	—
MLR-ACO-GA	0.0055  0.0018	0.0024–0.0113	67.2  1.6	62–69

^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.