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. 2016 Nov 15;59(4):685–701. doi: 10.1002/bimj.201500234

Table 3.

Selection performance of the methods in alternative scenarios

Univariate Modified covariates PCA+lasso PLS+lasso Ridge+lasso Group‐lasso Two‐I model Full‐lasso Alasso (sw) Alasso (gw) Alasso (aspw) Gradient boosting
Scenario 4a Selected biomarkers 4 14 13 14 14 24 18 2 2 0 3 7
TP / FP(pFP) 1 / 3(0) 1 / 13(0) 1 / 12(0) 1 / 13(0) 1 / 13(0) 1 / 23(0) 1 / 18(0) 1 / 1(0) 1 / 1(0) 0 / 0(0) 1 / 2(0) 1 / 6(0)
AUPRC 1.00 0.98 0.98 0.95 0.98 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99
Scenario 5a Selected biomarkers 14 43 42 49 49 100 78 20 20 3 18 37
TP / FP (pFP) 6 / 8(0) 9 / 34(0) 9 / 33(0) 9 / 40(0) 9 / 40(0) 10 / 90(0) 9 / 69(0) 9 / 11(0) 9 / 11(0) 2 / 1(0) 9 / 9(0) 10 / 27(0)
AUPRC 0.53 0.63 0.61 0.64 0.68 0.71 0.78 0.78 0.78 0.81 0.68
Scenario 6a Selected biomarkers 2 25 15 29 37 109 99 23 14 1 13 38
TP / FP (pFP) 1 / 1(0) 4 / 21(1) 4 / 11(0) 6 / 23(1) 7 / 30(1) 10 / 99(10) 9 / 90(0) 9 / 14(0) 8 / 7(0) 1 / 0(0) 8 / 5(0) 10 / 29(1)
AUPRC 0.27 0.25 0.37 0.38 0.43 0.21 0.75 0.69 0.71 0.71 0.62
Scenario 4b Selected biomarkers 4 13 13 14 14 25 18 2 2 0 2 7
TP / FP (pFP) 1 / 3(0) 1 / 12(0) 1 / 12(0) 1 / 13(0) 1 / 13(0) 1 / 24(0) 1 / 17(0) 1 / 1(0) 1 / 1(0) 0 / 0(0) 1 / 1(0) 1 / 6(0)
AUPRC 1.00 0.99 0.98 0.94 0.98 1.00 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.99 0.99
Scenario 5b Selected biomarkers 19 55 50 64 62 127 101 26 31 6 26 46
TP / FP (pFP) 8 / 11(0) 14 / 41(0) 14 / 36(0) 16 / 48(0) 16 / 46(0) 20 / 107(0) 18 / 83(0) 13 / 13(0) 15 / 16(0) 4 / 2(0) 15 / 12(0) 16 / 31(0)
AUPRC 0.42 0.45 0.45 0.49 0.51 0.53 0.63 0.63 0.62 0.65 0.51
Scenario 6b Selected biomarkers 1 20 12 30 39 124 110 28 14 1 13 35
TP / FP (pFP) 1 / 1(0) 4 / 16(1) 4 / 8(0) 7 / 22(1) 9 / 30(1) 19 / 106(20) 17 / 93(1) 13 / 15(1) 8 / 6(0) 0 / 0(0) 8 / 6(0) 13 / 22(1)
AUPRC 0.19 0.16 0.26 0.27 0.28 0.17 0.54 0.48 0.47 0.48 0.35
Scenario 4c Selected biomarkers 1 8 8 6 8 12 14 0 1 0 2 4
TP / FP (pFP) 0 / 0(0) 0 / 8(0) 0 / 8(0) 0 / 6(0) 0 / 7(0) 1 / 12(0) 1 / 13(0) 0 / 0(0) 0 / 1(0) 0 / 0(0) 0 / 2(0) 0 / 4(0)
AUPRC 0.36 0.34 0.34 0.25 0.34 0.44 0.33 0.35 0.25 0.37 0.40
Scenario 5c Selected biomarkers 3 28 27 23 32 51 51 4 9 0 8 21
TP / FP (pFP) 1 / 1(0) 5 / 23(0) 5 / 22(0) 4 / 19(0) 5 / 27(0) 7 / 44(0) 7 / 44(0) 2 / 2(0) 4 / 6(0) 0 / 0(0) 3 / 5(0) 5 / 16(0)
AUPRC 0.27 0.29 0.32 0.27 0.33 0.44 0.33 0.35 0.27 0.35 0.35
Scenario 6c Selected biomarkers 2 22 17 19 27 73 75 6 8 0 7 27
TP / FP (pFP) 1 / 1(0) 3 / 19(0) 3 / 14(0) 3 / 16(0) 4 / 22(1) 7 / 66(8) 7 / 68(3) 3 / 4(0) 3 / 5(0) 0 / 0(0) 3 / 4(0) 5 / 22(0)
AUPRC 0.21 0.22 0.26 0.24 0.29 0.19 0.32 0.33 0.26 0.34 0.31

TP: true positive, FP: false positive, pFP: prognostic false positive, AUPRC: area under the precision‐recall curve.