A comprehensive comparison of random forests and support vector machines for microarray-based cancer classification

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cancer diagnosis and clinical outcome prediction are among the most important emerging applications of gene expression microarray technology with several molecular signatures on their way toward clinical deployment. Use of the most a...

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Main Authors: Wang Lily, Statnikov Alexander, Aliferis Constantin F
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/319