Table 2 Misclassification rates (standard error) by the number of genes selected (48 samples)

Percentage of genes selected

No. of CIMP genes

No. of non-CIMP genes

Bernoulli- lognormal

Single threshold

k-means

100%

15

76

0.018 (0.020)

0.006 (0.009)

0.010 (0.002)

80%

12

61

0.030 (0.004)

0.009 (0.002)

0.020 (0.004)

60%

9

46

0.067 (0.007)

0.022 (0.003)

0.070 (0.013)

40%

6

30

0.147 (0.013)

0.073 (0.009)

0.140 (0.014)

20%

3

15

0.265 (0.012)

0.177 (0.013)

0.283 (0.016)

CIMP-predicting genes only (N = 15)

0.035 (0.004)

0.020 (0.004)

0.037 (0.005)