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. 2012 Aug;78(16):5575–5583. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00637-12

Table 4.

Discrimination results of the spectroscopic data from Brucella at the species levela

Strain LDA
SVM
Classification data
Identification data
Classification data
Identification data
TP/CM % Sens % Spec TP/CM % Sens % Spec TP/CM % Sens % Spec TP/CM % Sens % Spec
B. abortus 135/154 87.7 95.5 34/41 82.9 95.0 154/154 100 99.4 36/41 87.8 95.2
B. canis 121/141 85.8 98.8 67/73 91.8 95.8 141/142 100 100 70/73 95.9 96.3
B. ceti 72/88 81.8 99.8 36/60 60.0 97.6 88/88 100 100 53/60 88.3 96.9
B. melitensis 111/148 75.0 96.7 34/43 79.1 95.9 143/148 96.6 100 33/43 76.7 94.9
B. microti 202/214 94.4 97.4 63/78 80.8 98.1 214/214 100 99.9 58/78 74.4 99.6
B. pinnipedialis 115/132 87.1 94.9 43/53 81.1 95.5 131/132 99.2 100 43/53 81.1 98.6
B. suis 124/150 82.7 97.7 42/53 79.2 93.6 150/150 100 100 40/53 75.5 95.8
a

The results include all species-specific sensitivities (Sens) and specificities (Spec) obtained by performing an LDA and SVM on model and validation data.