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Table 7 Comparison of the full, selected and successful group of gene sets

From: Comparative evaluation of set-level techniques in predictive classification of gene expression samples

Group

Selection

Statistic

Nominal size

Effective size

PCA 50% var

PCA 90% var

Full

None

mean

71.7±1.7

40.9±0.7

4.4±0.03

16.7±0.14

  

median

37.0

28.1

4.1

15.3

Selected

all

mean

62.5±2.7

47.8±1.9

3.8±0.08

15.1±0.35

  

median

33.5

27.0

3.4

13.4

 

Global

median

32.0

25.5

3.3

12.8

 

GSEA

median

34.0

27.0

3.4

13.7

 

SAM-GS

median

40.5

28.0

3.7

14.3

Successful

all

mean

56.9±4.4

39.2±2.9

4.3±0.14

14.7±0.56

  

median

31.0

21.0

3.9

12.6

 

Global

median

22.0

18.5

3.8

11.7

 

GSEA

median

37.0

27.5

4.3

14.2

 

SAM-GS

median

30.5

22.5

4.0

12.7

  1. Mean and median sizes of gene sets partitioned into three groups (see Section Successful gene sets for details.)