Table 1.

Properties of the evaluated classifier models

	Decision surface	Model type	Loss function
Linear discriminant (LD)	Linear	Probabilistic	Gaussian
Quadratic discriminant (QD)	Nonlinear	Probabilistic	Gaussian
Logistic regression (LR)	Linear	Probabilistic	Logistic
Support vector machines (SVM)	Linear	Nonprobabilistic	Hinge‐loss