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. 2008 Oct 16;9:439. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-439

Table 6.

Running times.

Variable selection methods
Method Running time per learningset
Multiclass F-Test 3.1 s
Krusal-Wallis test 3.5 s
Limma* 0.16s
Random Forest†,* 4.1 s

Classification methods
Method # variables Running time per 50 learningsets

DLDA all (2308) 2.7 s
LDA 10 1.4 s
QDA 2 1.0 s
Partial Least Squares all (2308) 4.2 s
Shrunken Centroids all (2308) 2.8 s
SVM* all (2308) 88s

Running times of the different variable selection and classification methods used in the real life example. †: 500 bootstrap trees per run.