Table 5. The quartile and mean values of AUC accuracies of ESVM-RFE, SVM-RFE and BIRF on the four microarray datasets.

Dataset	Method	Min	1st Qu	Median	Mean	3rd Qu	Max
Colon	ESVM-RFE	0.9	0.9	0.95	0.94	0.95	1
	SVM-RFE	0.85	0.9	0.9	0.89	0.9	0.95
	BIRF	0.83	0.87	0.92	0.9	0.91	0.98
Breast 2	ESVM-RFE	0.76	0.84	0.85	0.84	0.85	0.89
	SVM-RFE	0.67	0.73	0.78	0.77	0.78	0.84
	BIRF	0.68	0.75	0.8	0.79	0.83	0.88
Breast 3	ESVM-RFE	0.56	0.62	0.67	0.66	0.69	0.78
	SVM-RFE	0.48	0.63	0.66	0.66	0.68	0.74
	BIRF	0.61	0.63	0.67	0.68	0.72	0.76
NCI	ESVM-RFE	0.71	0.78	0.81	0.81	0.84	0.89
	SVM-RFE	0.67	0.75	0.79	0.78	0.82	0.89
	BIRF	0.68	0.73	0.77	0.76	0.81	0.83