Table 3 Probability to detect the presence of viruses.

From: No metagenomic evidence of tumorigenic viruses in cancers from a selected cohort of immunosuppressed subjects

% prevalence

% detection probability1

n = 4

n = 5

n = 13

10

34.39

40.95

74.58

20

59.04

67.23

94.50

30

75.99

83.19

99.03

50

93.75

96.88

99.99

80

99.84

99.97

>99.99

  1. 1Probability to observe a virus that has the indicated hypothetical prevalence in the tumor group considered, in at least one of n samples. Probability is calculated according to the following formula: D = [1 − (1 − P)n] × 100, where D is detection probability and P is prevalence, with 0 ≤ P ≤ 1.
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