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Table 2 The definition of measures employed in this study

From: Protein disorder prediction by condensed PSSM considering propensity for order or disorder

Measure

Abbreviation

Equation *

Sensitivity (recall)

Sens.

TP/(TP+FN)

Specificity

Spec.

TN/(TN+FP)

Matthews' correlation coefficient

MCC

(TP×TN-FP×FN)/sqrt((TP+FP)×(TN+FN)×(TP+FN)×(TN+FP))

Probability excess

Prob. Excess

(TP×TN-FP×FN)/((TP+FN)×(TN+FP))

  1. * The definition of the abbreviations used: TP is the number of correctly classified disordered residues; FP is the number of ordered residues incorrectly classified as disordered; TN is the number of correctly classified ordered residues; and FN is the number of disordered residues incorrectly classified as ordered.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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