Table IV.

The recommendation rates for true maximum tolerated dose combinations (MTDCs) and over-dose combinations (ODCs) on average with respect to each type of the dose combination matrix, and position and number of true MTDCs. (The percentages for the best method are in bold).

			Rec % for true MTDCs					Rec % for ODCs
Dose combination matrix	Position and number of true MTDCs	Scenario	YYC	CDP	BW	WCO	HHM	YYC	CDP	BW	WCO	HHM
Square (i.e., 3 × 3 and 4 × 4)	Diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	1, 2, 5	58	74	58	69	58	24	17	23	20	16
	Non-diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	6, 7	39	45	33	38	40	37	38	33	33	22
	1 true MTDC	3, 4, 8	12	26	28	28	32	60	37	42	48	39
Rectangle (i.e., 2 × 4 and 3 × 5)	Diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	9, 13	35	52	39	44	39	25	28	27	19	14
	Non-diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	10, 14, 15	35	39	38	44	44	44	20	40	32	25
	1 true MTDC	12, 16	2	25	30	31	21	51	32	34	35	31
			Avg allocation to true MTDCs (#)					Accuracy index
Square (i.e., 3 × 3 and 4 × 4)	Diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	1, 2, 5	11	16	13	15	11	0.57	0.72	0.54	0.65	0.54
	Non-diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	6, 7	10	7	7	8	5	0.36	0.62	0.49	0.53	0.54
	1 true MTDC	3, 4, 8	2	7	7	6	6	0.45	0.54	0.48	0.56	0.59
Rectangle (i.e., 2 × 4 and 3 × 5)	Diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	9, 13	6	9	9	10	7	0.46	0.60	0.46	0.58	0.51
	Non-diagonal and ⩾2 true MTDCs	10, 14, 15	7	13	7	10	8	0.51	0.64	0.44	0.58	0.52
	1 true MTDC	12, 16	1	10	5	7	4	0.35	0.59	0.51	0.58	0.48