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Table 1 Sensitivity/Specificity comparison of variational EM algorithm with MCMC algorithm

From: Variational inference for rare variant detection in deep, heterogeneous next-generation sequencing data

True NRAF

Median depth

Sensitivity

Specificity

  

MCMC

Variational

MCMC

Variational

0.1%

39

0.00

0.00

1.00

1.00

 

408

0.00

0.07

1.00

1.00

 

4129

0.14

0.29

1.00

1.00

 

41449

0.86

1.00

0.97

1.00

0.3%

36

0.00

0.00

1.00

1.00

 

410

0.00

0.00

1.00

1.00

 

4156

1.00

1.00

0.99

0.98

 

41472

1.00

0.93

0.85

0.91

1.0%

53

0.00

0.00

1.00

1.00

 

535

0.21

0.29

1.00

1.00

 

5584

1.00

1.00

0.98

0.98

 

55489

1.00

0.93

0.87

0.95

10.0%

22

0.00

0.57

1.00

1.00

 

260

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

2718

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

26959

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

100.0%

27

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

298

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

3089

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

30590

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00