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Table 4 Positive predictive value for methods of pathogen identification

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

 

Positive Predictive Value

Target

Mann-Whitney U

Spearman Correlation

Binomial test

 

sense

anti-sense

both

sense

anti-sense

both

sense

anti-sense

both

WNV

100%

100%

100%

0%

0%

0%

100%

100%

100%

HCoV-SARS

50%

33%

50%

0%

0%

0%

50%

100%

100%

EV18

92%

95%

91%

92%

100%

96%

95%

100%

96%

LASV

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

100%†

ZEBOV

100%

100%

100%

0%

0%

0%

100%

100%

100%

VSV

100%

100%

100%

0%

0%

0%

100%

100%

100%

HAdV-4

48%

74%

32%

0%

100%

0%

85%

89%

73%

FLUA H1N1

99%

96%

95%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

97%

HSV-1

83%

100%

71%

0%

0%

0%

63%

100%

54%

Average

75%

77%

71%

21%

33%

22%

77%

88%

91%

Correct top ranked predictions

8/9

8/9

8/9

2/9

3/9

2/9

8/9

8/9

9/9

  1. Top 250 predictions; q value threshold = 0.1
  2. † LASV is targeted by four probes