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. 2009 Jan 30;10(Suppl 1):S35. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S35

Table 6.

Measures for accuracy calculation.

Measure Calculation
Sensitivity (Sn) Sn=TPTP+FN
Specificity (Sp) Sp=TNTN+FP
False Discovery Rate (FDR) FDR=FPTP+FP
Matthew's Correlation Coefficient (MCC) MCC=(TPTNFPFN)/((TP+FP)(TP+FN)(TN+FP)(TN+FN))

TP: True Positives; TN: True Negatives; FP: False Positives; FN: False Negatives.