Table 2 Error rates for supervised classification

From: Genome-wide gene expression profiling suggests distinct radiation susceptibilities in sporadic and post-Chernobyl papillary thyroid cancers

 

French error

CTB error

Global error

 

(a) Classification based on all genes

GPLS

17

7

12

 

PAM

25

29

27

 

RF

33

14

23

 

LKSVM

25

7

15

 

(b) Classification based on H 2 O 2 vs γ-radiation signature

GPLS

8

21

15

 

PAM

25

29

27

 

RF

42

7

23

 

LKSVM

25

7

15

 
 

French error

CTB error

Global error

P

(c) Classification based on homologous radiation signature

GPLS

17

21

19

0.0038

PAM

25

21

23

<0.001

RF

42

21

31

0.063

LKSVM

8

21

15

0.0038

  1. CTB=Chernobyl Tissue Bank; GPLS=generalised partial least-square; LKSVM=linear kernel support vector machines; PAM=prediction analysis of microarray; RF=random forest.
  2. Classification and validation procedures are described in Materials and Methods.
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