Table 3

Effect of varying β on the selection order of genes. The first ten genes selected for each value of β are shown here. The numbers correspond to the gene numbers for the colon cancer data set. Varying β does seem to affect the order in which the genes are selected. However, selection order is not indicative of the relative importance of genes since a greedy-selection method is being used.

β
g1
g2
g3
g4
g5
g6
g7
g8
g9
g10

0.0
377
267
765
493
1582
513
1635
1671
245
780
0.2
377
267
1582
513
765
493
1635
1671
780
1423
0.4
377
1582
267
513
493
765
1635
1671
780
1491
0.6
377
1582
267
513
1491
493
1635
765
1671
1256
0.8
377
1582
513
267
1491
1727
493
1635
1671
765
1.0
377
1582
1491
513
267
1727
1244
1256
1671
1873

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