Table 4.

Number of hits selected in McMaster Test assay for the μ-2.29SD threshold (i.e., threshold used by the McMaster competition organizers to select the 96 original average hits) after the application of the B-score correction, depending on the α parameter

α	Original hits	Obtained hits	Preserved hits	Added hits	Removed hits
0.01	96	357	79	278	17
0.05	96	419	79	340	17
0.1	96	411	79	332	17
0.2	96	417	76	341	20

The t-test was carried out to detect systematic error.