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Table 2 Estimated error rates (ATE) and standard deviations for an increasing number of features on colon cancer data (average over 50 experiments), for each of the ranking methods.

From: Entropy-based gene ranking without selection bias for the predictive classification of microarray data

# genes

E-RFE

RFE

SQRT-RFE

CC

TT

10

20.9 ± 10.0

22.0 ± 11.0

19.5 ± 9.8

20.4 ± 10.6

21.3 ± 9.4

20

19.9 ± 8.9

20.0 ± 9.1

19.3 ± 9.5

20.8 ± 9.6

19.2 ± 10.5

50

18.5 ± 8.5

18.4 ± 9.0

17.2 ± 8.1

20.7 ± 8.1

21.2 ± 9.3

100

16.8 ± 7.8

17.3 ± 8.1

17.2 ± 8.2

21.5 ± 9.6

22.0 ± 10.5

300

17.2 ± 8.2

17.6 ± 8.1

17.6 ± 8.2

19.7 ± 10.2

19.9 ± 9.5

500

17.9 ± 7.9

17.9 ± 7.9

17.5 ± 7.4

17.7 ± 8.3

17.5 ± 8.6

1000

16.9 ± 7.5

16.9 ± 7.4

16.8 ± 7.3

17.1 ± 7.5

17.5 ± 7.6

2000

All features: 16.0 ± 7.5

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