[pymvpa] classification selection

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Liang, Guangsheng wrote:

>    Hello PyMVPA community,

>    I just start using PyMVPA for some fMRI data analysis, and I got a
>    question about classification selection.

>    I firstly used LinearCSVMC as my initial classifier, but it ran very very
>    slow (it kept running for more than 2 weeks).

>    I am not quite sure where did I go wrong.  I then used another classifier
>    - kNN. It ran much faster than the LinearCSVMC.

>    I was wondering if there was any restriction or cautions on using kNN for
>    fMRI data analysis?

it all depends on details of your study...   at least having a clue
(print your_ds.summary()) could be of help.

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