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. 2020 Apr 7;5(2):e00230-19. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00230-19

TABLE 2.

Medians of the differences in performance between balance selection methodsa

Method Median of difference in performance of indicated method
selbal PBA-distal ABA-distal RBA-distal DBA-distal DBA
selbal −0.125 to −0.091 −0.012 to 0.016 −0.0066 to 0.0203 0.016 to 0.042 0.019 to 0.045
PBA-distal 0.091 to 0.125 0.087 to 0.122 0.095 to 0.131 0.12 to 0.16 0.13 to 0.16
ABA-distal −0.016 to 0.012 −0.122 to −0.087 −0.0082 to 0.0182 0.014 to 0.040 0.017 to 0.044
RBA-distal −0.0203 to 0.0066 −0.131 to −0.095 −0.0182 to 0.0082 0.0082 to 0.0345 0.012 to 0.038
DBA-distal −0.042 to −0.016 −0.16 to −0.12 −0.040 to −0.014 −0.0345 to −0.0082 −0.006 to 0.014
DBA −0.045 to −0.019 −0.16 to −0.13 −0.044 to −0.017 −0.038 to −0.012 −0.014 to 0.006
a

Confidence intervals computed using pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum tests applied to 50 resamplings of 13 data sets. The appendix “-distal” indicates that only the 2-part and 3-part balances were used as features. This table corresponds to Fig. 3.