“Haberman's Survival Data" Set

Question

I am looking to find the best performing classification model to predict if a patient will survive 5 years or longer after the surgery. I need to do a comparison for my class. Which, if any or all, of the below Classification models should I use?:
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Decision tree

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K nearest

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Naïve bayes

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ANN

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SVM

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Random forest

Thanks so much!

jacobcybulski · Answer

All these models are applicable to the classification task, so I suggest you try them all and see which gives the best validation performance. In the process you may need to explore your data and see if any pre-processing is required for each particular model and if distribution or label values indicates which performance measures are applicable to your data. Good luck.