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Table 3 False positive rates for methods of pathogen identification

From: Nonparametric methods for the analysis of single-color pathogen microarrays

 

False Positive Rate

Target

Mann-Whitney U

Spearman Correlation

Binomial test

  

GC Corrected

 

GC Corrected

 

GC Corrected

WNV

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

HCoV-SARS

7%

0%

100%

0%

0%

0%

EV18

63%

15%

100%

12%

14%

0%

LASV

11%

0%

100%

0%

0%

0%

ZEBOV

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

VSV

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

HAdV-4

100%

30%

100%

5%

18%

0%

FLUA H1N1

20%

1%

100%

0%

0%

0%

HSV-1

8%

0%

0%

1%

2%

0%

Negative Control (200 ng HuDNA)

100%

0%

1%

0%

1%

0% †

Negative Control (200 ng HuDNA)

100%

0%

100%

1%

1%

0%

Negative Control (200 ng HuDNA)

100%

0%

100%

1%

1%

0%

Negative Control (200 ng HuDNA)

100%

0%

100%

0%

1%

0%

Negative Control (10 ng HuDNA)

100%

0%

88%

0%

2%

0%

Negative Control

100%

0%

100%

0%

0%

0% †

Negative Control

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

Negative Control

4%

0%

2%

0%

0%

0%

Average

48%

3%

58%

1%

2%

0%

  1. † Hybridization performed on different days