Table 1

Results.

Classifier type

Percentage of times

training error<30%

Percentage of

times bias>20%

Mean CV error estimate

for optimized classifier

Mean true error of

optimized classifier

Mean bias

Shrunken centroids on "null" data

18.5%

22.2%

37.8%

50.0%

-12.2%

SVM on "null" data

22.2%

25.3%

41.7%

50.0%

-8.3%

Varma and Simon BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:91   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-91