Do we Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? Manuel Fernández-Delgado, Eva Cernadas, Senén Barro, Dinani Amorim; 15(90):3133−3181, 2014. Abstract We evaluate 179 classifiers arising from 17 families (discriminant analysis, Bayesian, neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees, rule-based classifiers, boosting, bagging, stacking, random forests and ot