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Table 4 Average performance measures from a sensitivity analysis of the simulated gene expression data on 40 subjects (20 being in each group) under setting 2, with the four software packages limma, sam, sva and svapls

From: svapls: an R package to correct for hidden factors of variability in gene expression studies

Method

Sensitivity

Specificity

FDR

FDR

η=0.05

LIMMA

0.5632

0.1690

0.8399

0.6629

SAM

0.7845

0.6199

0.7158

0.0312

SVA

0.1651

0.9993

0.0469

0.0329

SVAPLS

0.8324

0.9998

0.0024

0.0111

η=0.10

LIMMA

0.5637

0.1640

0.8333

0.6967

SAM

0.7378

0.6507

0.6471

0.0342

SVA

0.1428

0.9994

0.0461

0.0331

SVAPLS

0.7535

0.9995

0.0071

0.0165

η=0.15

LIMMA

0.5660

0.1619

0.8315

0.7183

SAM

0.6983

0.6553

0.6481

0.0372

SVA

0.1082

0.9995

0.0506

0.0350

SVAPLS

0.6806

0.9995

0.0095

0.0211