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. 2006 Jun 23;7:319. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-319

Table 2.

The definition of measures employed in this study

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))

* 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.