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. 2011 Mar 21;1:11. doi: 10.1186/2043-9113-1-11

Table 4.

Classification performances with selected biomarkers by BMI and original literature

Biomarkers by BMI Biomarkers from original literature
Classifier Specificity Sensitivity Accuracy Specificity Sensitivity Accuracy

Naïve Bayes 0.7938++ 0.7006++ 0.7489++ 0.7117 0.6644 0.6872
SVM 0.8134++ 0.7056++ 0.7615++ 0.6622 0.6593 0.6607
Neural Network 0.7242++ 0.6422 0.6848 0.6956 0.7459++ 0.7217++
k-Nearest Neighbor 0.8325++ 0.6144 0.7275++ 0.6378 0.6964++ 0.6682
Random Forest 0.7139++ 0.7328++ 0.7230++ 0.6872 0.6680 0.6773

++ and + denotes superior performance as determined at of 1% and 5% significance levels respectively.