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. 2012 May 14;7(5):e37139. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037139

Table 3. Classification results on the training and test sets.

Classification Method Accuracy Sensitivity Specificity
Training Set
Support Vector Machine (SVM) 90.9% 91.5% 90.4%
Random Forest (RF) 86.9% 87.2% 86.5%
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) 90.9% 89.4% 92.3%
Predictive Analysis of Microarray (PAM) 88.9% 89.4% 88.5%
Lasso 91.9% 91.5% 92.3%
Boosting 88.9% 89.4% 88.5%
Naïve Bayes 88.9% 89.4% 88.5%
Majority Vote (Combined Classifiers) 89.9% 91.5% 88.5%
Test Set
Support Vector Machine (SVM) 83.3% 80.0% 85.0%
Random Forest (RF) 73.3% 90.0% 65.0%
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) 76.7% 80.0% 75.0%
Predictive Analysis of Microarray (PAM) 86.7% 100.0% 80.0%
Lasso 86.7% 80.0% 90.0%
Boosting 86.7% 90.0% 85.0%
Naïve Bayes 83.3% 100.0% 75.0%
Majority Vote (Combined Classifiers) 80.0% 90.0% 75.0%

The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity of the ileal gene signature selected by the boosting method [16] are calculated using Leaving-One-Out cross validation on the training and subsequently, direct classification of the test set based on the training set.