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

Table 5.

Further validation of RF and SVM prediction models on an additional 6,093 PFGE patterns (group 3)

S. enterica serotype group and name % Accuracy (no. of correct predictions/no. of PFGE patterns)
RF model SVM model
Most frequent serotypes (n = 20)
    I 4,[5],12:i:- 93.5 (403/431) 94.0 (405/431)
    Braenderup 100 (158/158) 100 (158/158)
    Enteritidis 99.8 (494/495) 99.8 (494/495)
    Hadar 98.6 (145/147) 98.6 (145/147)
    Heidelberg 100 (191/191) 100 (191/191)
    Infantis 100 (235/235) 99.6 (234/235)
    Javiana 98.7 (298/302) 99.3 (300/302)
    Mississippi 98.4 (184/187) 98.9 (185/187)
    Montevideo 99.4 (163/164) 99.4 (163/164)
    Muenchen 98.9 (93/94) 98.9 (93/94)
    Newport 95.6 (172/180) 97.2 (175/180)
    Paratyphi B var. L(+) tartrate+ 100 (187/187) 99.5 (186/187)
    Poona 98.0 (99/101) 100 (101/101)
    Saintpaul 99.4 (355/358) 99.4 (356/358)
    Thompson 100 (204/204) 99.0 (202/204)
    Typhimurium 62.3 (139/223) 63.2 (141/223)
    Typhimurium var. 5− 72.5 (227/313) 70.0 (219/313)
Less frequent serotypes (n = 12)
    Anatum 97.3 (250/256) 98.4 (253/256)
    Bareilly 88.9 (201/225) 93.8 (212/225)
    Berta 95.2 (279/293) 97.6 (286/293)
    Derby 90.1 (63/81) 91.2 (65/81)
    Hartford 98.1 (307/313) 99.0 (310/313)
    Litchfield 98.8 (162/164) 99.4 (163/164)
    Mbandaka 99.4 (161/162) 99.4 (161/162)
    Panama 92.7 (267/288) 94.1 (271/288)
    Stanley 92.9 (224/241) 95.0 (229/241)
    Overall 94.5 (5,761/6,093) 95.1 (5,798/6,093)