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. 2007 Jun 6;35(Web Server issue):W465–W472. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm353

Table 2.

Definition of measures employed in this study

Measure Abbr. Equation
Sensitivity Sens. TP/(TP + FN)
Specificity Spec. TN/(TN + FP)
Accuracy Accu. (TP + TN)/(TP + FP + TN + FN)
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)]

Note: The definition of the abbreviations used: TP and TN is the number of correctly classified disordered and ordered residues, respectively; FP is the number of ordered residues incorrectly classified as disordered; FN is the number of disordered residues incorrectly classified as ordered.