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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem Lab Med. 2011 Mar 2;49(5):817–824. doi: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.122

Table 4.

Summary of Discriminating Errors for Serum and Plasma Markers.

Mean Standard
Deviation
Min 1st
Quartile
Median 3rd
Quartile
Max p-value
Recursive Partitioning Models <0.001

Serum .119 .085 0 .05 .10 .15 .40
Plasma .170 .100 0 .10 .15 .25 .45

Random Forest Models <0.001

Serum .081 .050 0 .05 .10 .10 .25
Plasma .097 .060 0 .05 .10 .15 .30

Significant differences between serum and plasma for both the recursive partitioning and random forest models were tested using the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test.