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. 2015 Nov 10;16(Suppl 11):S7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-16-S11-S7

Table 3.

Performance of SVM and classification trees.

Classifier Class Distribution Min Median Mean Max Standard
deviation
SVM Uneven, all samples
Even, subsampled
0.003
0.003
0.005
0.02
0.006
0.02
0.01
0.03
0.002
0.008

CART Uneven, all samples
Even, subsampled
0.004
0
0.005
0.016
0.008
0.02
0.016
0.04
0.002
0.013

Values shown are classification errors computed as the average ratio of incorrectly classified test samples to the total number of test samples per replicate. We report results both including the entire dataset and results from 10 replicates of subsampling to ensure an even class distribution.