9. 1.2 Proposed Procedure Many beginners use the following procedure now: • Transform data to the format of an SVM package • Randomly try a few kernels and parameters • Test We propose that beginners try the following procedure first: • Transform data to the format of an SVM package • Conduct simple scaling on the data 2 • Consider the RBF kernel K(x, y) = e−γx−y • Use cross-validation to find the b