Research article

Improved variance estimation of classification performance via reduction of bias caused by small sample size

Ulrika Wickenberg-Bolin¹, Hanna Göransson¹, Mårten Fryknäs¹, Mats G Gustafsson^1,²^* and Anders Isaksson¹^*

* Corresponding authors: Mats G Gustafsson mg@signal.uu.se - Anders Isaksson anders.isaksson@genpat.uu.se

¹ Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Rudbeck Laboratory, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden

² Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 528, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

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BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:127 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-127

Published: 13 March 2006

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