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. 2012 May;50(5):1524–1532. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00111-12

Table 4.

Average accuracies of RF and SVM classification analyses on 39,829 PFGE patterns (including both G1 and G2) normalized by the NCTR fixed-band method using G1 as the standard set of band classa

S. enterica serotype group and name RF avg accuracya (% [SD]) SVM avg accuracya (% [SD])
Most frequent serotypes (n = 20)
    I 4,[5],12:i:− 92.5 (5.99) 92.5 (5.00)
    Agona 99.9 (1.15) 100.0 (0.98)
    Braenderup 99.8 (1.34) 99.6 (1.10)
    Enteritidis 99.7 (1.47) 99.7 (1.87)
    Hadar 99.0 (1.81) 98.9 (1.97)
    Heidelberg 99.8 (1.05) 99.7 (1.97)
    Infantis 99.8 (1.21) 99.8 (1.10)
    Javiana 99.5 (2.32) 99.6 (1.89)
    Mississippi 99.3 (2.00) 99.4 (1.86)
    Montevideo 99.6 (0.65) 99.7 (1.29)
    Muenchen 99.0 (3.01) 99.5 (2.28)
    Newport 99.5 (1.97) 99.4 (2.40)
    Oranienburg 99.4 (1.52) 99.5 (1.66)
    Paratyphi B var. L(+) tartrate+ 99.5 (1.98) 99.4 (2.45)
    Poona 97.5 (3.99) 98.9 (2.80)
    Saintpaul 99.3 (3.01) 99.4 (2.69)
    Thompson 99.6 (3.04) 99.5 (2.58)
    Typhi 99.7 (1.46) 99.9 (1.11)
    Typhimurium 68.8 (8.79) 67.8 (10.29)
    Typhimurium var. 5− 71.8 (12.01) 71.8 (12.13)
Less frequent serotypes (n = 12)
    Anatum 96.8 (1.39) 97.4 (1.50)
    Bareilly 80.6 (4.24) 88.7 (3.54)
    Berta 97.8 (1.24) 95.9 (0.94)
    Derby 87.7 (2.34) 88.1 (1.87)
    Hartford 97.0 (1.33) 96.2 (1.28)
    Litchfield 96.6 (1.19) 94.5 (2.01)
    Mbandaka 99.6 (0.66) 98.5 (0.67)
    Panama 89.7 (2.05) 91.8 (2.35)
    Paratyphi A 98.3 (1.41) 98.1 (1.21)
    Schwarzengrund 96.8 (1.38) 96.8 (1.80)
    Senftenberg 92.4 (2.68) 91.9 (2.57)
    Stanley 92.3 (1.89) 95.7 (2.04)
    Total 96.0 96.1
a

Two-fold cross validation was used with 100 repetitions.