Table 4.

Iterative PLS-DA modeling cumulative results.

Metabolite	HCC vs HCV	Cumulative PLS-DA
	p-valuea	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUROCb	LVc
Uric acid	3.0E-03	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Xanthine	5.2E-03	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cholylglycine	1.3E-02	0.95	0.62	0.89	3
D-Leucic acid	2.2E-02	0.95	0.62	0.89	3
Glycolaldehyde, 3-Hydroxycapric acid	2.3 E-02, 3.2E-02	0.92, 0.92	0.67, 0.62	0.92, 0.89	3,3
Arachidonyl lysolecithin	2.8E-06	0.89	0.91	0.91	3
Dioleoylphosphatidylcholine	1.0E-05	0.89, 0.92	0.95, 0.95	0.93, 0.93	3,4

^ap-value determined from the Welch’s t-test

^barea under the ROC curve

^cnumber of latent variables