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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2016 May 5;111(513):275–287. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2015.1005212

Table 3.

Median classification error (in percentage) on e-mail spam data when the size of the training data varies. Standard errors are in the parentheses.

% FANS FANS2 ROAD PLR penGAM LDA NB FAIR SVM
5 11.1(2.6) 10.5(1.1) 13.6(0.9) 13.5(1.7) - 13.6(1.1) 10.5(5.0) 15.6(1.7) 11.2(0.8)
10 8.7(2.4) 8.5(0.9) 11.3(0.8) 10.5(1.1) - 11.3(0.9) 10.7(4.2) 13.5(0.9) 9.4(0.7)
20 8.0(2.1) 7.7(0.7) 10.6(0.6) 9.0(0.8) - 10.3(0.6) 10.7(5.3) 12.4(0.7) 8.1(0.7)
30 7.8(1.7) 7.4(0.5) 10.3(0.4) 8.9(0.6) 9.2(0.6) 10.1(0.5) 10.7(4.0) 11.7(0.4) 7.4(0.6)
40 7.2(2.2) 6.9(0.5) 10.1(0.5) 9.0(0.6) 8.6(0.5) 10.0(0.4) 10.5(5.1) 11.5(0.6) 7.0(0.5)
50 7.4(2.2) 7.0(0.5) 9.9(0.5) 8.5(0.6) 8.3(0.5) 9.9(0.4) 10.7(4.1) 11.8(0.6) 6.9(0.5)
60 7.4(2.2) 6.8(0.5) 9.8(0.6) 9.3(0.6) 7.8(0.6) 9.5(0.5) 10.6(4.8) 11.8(0.7) 6.5(0.6)
70 7.2(1.6) 6.4(0.6) 9.5(0.7) 9.2(0.7) 7.4(0.7) 9.4(0.6) 10.5(4.6) 11.4(0.7) 6.4(0.7)
80 6.9(1.6) 6.3(0.7) 9.4(0.6) 9.3(0.9) 7.4(0.8) 9.2(0.6) 10.4(4.7) 11.4(0.8) 6.3(0.9)