Table 2.

Comparing our hierarchical Bayesian model to alternative approaches based on the average AUC (presented in percentage) over 100 simulated data sets for each simulation. The numbers in parentheses show the corresponding standard errors.

	GSEA	Mean.z	Mean.abs.z	Maxmean	LME	BGSA
Simulation 1	60.0 (0.71)	65.3 (0.98)	67.7 (1.20)	80.9 (0.97)	80.8 (1.16)	87.2 (0.87)
Simulation 2	60.4 (0.74)	61.0 (0.92)	65.8 (1.00)	68.9 (1.08)	76.3 (1.14)	79.1 (1.10)
Simulation 3	60.2 (0.76)	61.2 (0.84)	64.7 (0.97)	68.7 (1.03)	74.8 (1.11)	77.0 (1.08)