Table 3. Comparison of the accuracy of ANN and PLS classification models on ten replicates.

Species	Metric	Model architecture		P-value (two-tail)	P-value (one-tail)
		PLS	ANN
An. gambiae	Accuracy (%)	93.6 ± 1.2	99.4 ± 1.0	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Sensitivity (%)	94.4 ± 1.6	99.3 ± 1.4	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Specificity (%)	92.4 ± 1.9	99.5 ± 0.7	< 0.001	< 0.001
An. arabiensis	Accuracy (%)	88.7 ± 1.1	99.0 ± 0.6	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Sensitivity (%)	95.4 ± 1.4	99.5 ± 0.5	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Specificity (%)	75.2 ± 3.4	98.3 ± 1.3	< 0.001	< 0.001