DectICO: an alignment-free supervised metagenomic classification method based on feature extraction and dynamic selection

Table 6 Comparison of the stability and generality between DectICO and the RSVM/ICO

	3-mer	4-mer	5-mer	6-mer	7-mer	8-mer
RSVM (stability test)	0.099	0.054	0.069	0.057	0.074	0.063
DectICO (stability test)	0.063	0.057	0.048	0.041	0.031	0.027
RSVM (generality test)	0.036	0.022	0.040	0.045	0.044	0.036
DectICO (generality test)	0.017	0.024	0.029	0.022	0.027	0.022

The stability and generality between DectICO and the RSVM/ICO are compared on the basis of the results of the stability test and generality test respectively

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