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Table 1 Comparison of RFE, RFE-Annealing and SQRT-RFE algorithms in terms of time

From: Improving the Performance of SVM-RFE to Select Genes in Microarray Data

Data

Number of samples

RFE

RFE-Annealing

SQRT-RFE

St.Jude

246

58 hours

26 minutes

60 minutes

Bhattacharjee

203

27 hours

20 minutes

38 minutes

Alon

62

6.3 minutes

0.5 minute

1 minute

  1. This table clearly demonstrates the computational efficiency of RFE-Annealing over SQRT-RFE and especially RFE. When data sets with a large number of samples and a large number of genes (e.g. SJCRH and Bhattacharjee) are used the difference is substantial.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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