“…In this context, to assess adaptability and stability, various statistical methods are used, and differ in statistical principles, biometric procedures, and interpretation of results (Eeuwijk et al 2016). According to Cargnelutti Filho, Perecin, Malheiros and Guadagnin (2007), these methods can be arranged in several classes, such as those based on analysis of variance (Yates & Cochran, 1938;Plaisted & Peterson, 1959;Wricke, 1965), linear regression (Finlay & Wilkinson, 1963;Eberhart & Russell, 1966;Tai, 1971), bi-segmented regression (Verma, Chahal, & Murty, 1978;Cruz, Torres, & Vencovsky, 1989) in non-parametric statistics (Lin & Binns, 1988;Huehn, 1990;Annicchiarico, 1992;Rocha, Muro-Abad, Araujo, & Cruz, 2005;Nascimento et al, 2010;Nascimento et al, 2015), quantile regression (Barroso et al, 2015), bayesian statistics (Couto et al, 2015;Nascimento et al, 2011) and computational intelligence (Nascimento et al, 2013;Teodoro et al, 2015;Carneiro et al, 2018;Carneiro et al, 2019).…”