Table 2

Effect of varying β on classification accuracy. The effect of varying β was studied for the colon cancer data set. A value of between 0.5 – 1 as suggested by Battiti [21] seems appropriate.

β
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0

accurate
87.1%
88.7%
90.3%
90.3%
90.3%
90.3%

Liu et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:76   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-76