Table 3. Cross-validation results of Support Vector Machine to predict pollen type, based on 99 iterations of random 80:20 splits of data into training:test sets.

Model parameters	precision rate ± s.d.
50 parameters, polar view and equatorial view	96.1% ± 0.3
50 parameters, polar view only	97.2% ± 0.3
7 parameters, polar view and equatorial view	94.7% ± 0.3
7 parameters, polar view only	95.9% ± 0.3