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Table 1 Results.

From: Bias in error estimation when using cross-validation for model selection

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%