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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Dec 21;26(5):711–718. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0732

Table 3.

Model optimization with additional epidemiologic information from the Serum Repository (SR) or questionnaire data for selected proteomic peaks in the year before cancer diagnosis

Model Error rate Sensitivity/Specificity Final variablesa
SR 0.33 0.691 / 0.655 3119.316895
2886.669922
2939.234619
5078.806641
Adenovirus vaccine
Anthrax vaccine
Influenza H1N1 vaccine
SR + Q (bfbd) 0.28 0.680 / 0.760 3119.316895
2886.669922
2939.234619
5078.806641
Other cancer
Tonsillectomy
SR + Q (diag) 0.28 0.760 / 0.680 3119.316895
2886.669922
2939.234619
5078.806641
Smoking at diagnosis

SR= Serum Repository; Q=questionnaire; bfbd=before first blood draw; diag=before diagnosis

a

Peaks included in each model are from time period 1 in Table 2