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From: Greg Heath <heath@alumni.brown.edu>
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Subject: Re: small data set
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On May 1, 6:30=A0am, "giannis " <fanzi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am doing a statistical research using KNN,neuralnets and
> SVM.. The problem is the very small data set (25 speciments).
>
> I am using cross validation to resample the data but I am
> not sure if my results can be accurate with such a small
> data set.
>
> can you please suggest any method to use as best as possible
> =A0such a small data set?
> thank you in advance =A0

Bootstrapping

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Hope this helps.

Greg