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2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On Sample Size and Classification Accuracy: A Performance Comparison
verfasst von : Margarita Sordo, Qing Zeng
Erschienen in: Biological and Medical Data Analysis
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We investigate the dependency between sample size and classification accuracy of three classification techniques: Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines and Decision Trees over a set of 8500 text excerpts extracted automatically from narrative reports from the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA. Each excerpt refers to the smoking status of a patient as: current, past, never a smoker or, denies smoking. Our empirical results, consistent with [1], confirm that size of the training set and the classification rate are indeed correlated. Even though these algorithms perform reasonably well with small datasets, as the number of cases increases, both SMV and Decision Trees show a substantial improvement in performance, suggesting a more consistent learning process. Unlike the majority of evaluations, ours were carried out specifically in a medical domain where the limited amount of data is a common occurrence [13][14]. This study is part of the I2B2 project, Core 2.