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Table 6 Success rate (%) of the methods on real data sets.

From: DNA barcode analysis: a comparison of phylogenetic and statistical classification methods

Data set

NJ

PhyML

1-NN

CART

RF

Kernel

Astraptes

99.36

99.36 *

99.36

98.22

99.36

99.57*

Cowries (species)

95.45 *

93.40

95.45 *

78.40

94.65

94.45

Cowries (species and subspecies)

91.10

86.37

91.31

72.38

91.41 *

89.20

Amazonian Butterflies (barcode)

91.73

91.20

90.40

75.47

92.00

92.80*

Amazonian Butterflies (mtDNA)

91.47

91.2

91.73

71.20

92.00

93.60*

Amazonian Butterflies (nuclear gene)

87.74

90.32 *

90.32 *

52.90

80.64

89.03

  1. * Best score