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. 2020 Aug 5;10(8):138. doi: 10.3390/life10080138

Table 3.

Summary of performance for each method at various cutoff points when the total sample size = 300,000 and rr~U1.2, 10.

True Signal Ratio 0.03 0.05 0.1
Method Cutoff * Power Sensitivity PPV Power Sensitivity PPV Power Sensitivity PPV
ROR 1 0.996 0.753 0.251 0.997 0.728 0.394 0.999 0.680 0.649
1.5 0.996 0.704 0.388 0.997 0.678 0.534 0.999 0.621 0.744
2 0.996 0.655 0.503 0.997 0.624 0.628 0.999 0.561 0.800
2.5 0.996 0.608 0.587 0.997 0.569 0.692 0.999 0.498 0.833
3 0.996 0.559 0.646 0.997 0.519 0.737 0.999 0.438 0.854
PRR 1 0.996 0.753 0.251 0.997 0.728 0.394 0.999 0.680 0.649
1.5 0.996 0.704 0.389 0.997 0.678 0.535 0.999 0.621 0.744
2 0.996 0.654 0.504 0.997 0.623 0.629 0.999 0.560 0.800
2.5 0.996 0.607 0.588 0.997 0.568 0.693 0.999 0.497 0.833
3 0.996 0.557 0.647 0.997 0.516 0.738 0.999 0.436 0.855
IC log21 0.991 0.687 0.309 0.995 0.660 0.479 0.995 0.613 0.748
log21.5 0.986 0.612 0.614 0.991 0.579 0.757 0.992 0.526 0.904
log22 0.980 0.541 0.825 0.984 0.507 0.881 0.990 0.448 0.951
log22.5 0.976 0.500 0.877 0.982 0.467 0.917 0.989 0.405 0.963
log23 0.963 0.413 0.938 0.977 0.375 0.956 0.986 0.311 0.978
LRT 0.2 0.939 0.462 0.962 0.956 0.417 0.983 0.973 0.338 0.990
0.1 0.929 0.432 0.981 0.945 0.388 0.990 0.969 0.312 0.995
0.05 0.915 0.409 0.990 0.930 0.365 0.992 0.961 0.289 0.996
0.025 0.901 0.387 0.994 0.922 0.341 0.995 0.947 0.267 1.000
0.01 0.881 0.359 0.997 0.908 0.314 0.999 0.932 0.240 1.000
GPS 1 0.891 0.417 0.997 0.926 0.395 0.998 0.951 0.378 0.997
1.5 0.888 0.415 0.998 0.925 0.393 0.998 0.951 0.378 0.997
2 0.888 0.414 0.998 0.925 0.391 0.998 0.950 0.369 0.998
2.5 0.888 0.406 0.998 0.924 0.373 0.998 0.945 0.312 1.000
3 0.886 0.369 0.999 0.911 0.315 0.999 0.913 0.204 1.000
BCPNN log21 0.948 0.578 0.731 0.951 0.539 0.857 0.972 0.474 0.957
log21.5 0.914 0.443 0.984 0.924 0.398 0.992 0.950 0.323 0.998
log22 0.867 0.335 0.998 0.893 0.291 0.999 0.911 0.216 1.000
log22.5 0.808 0.246 1.000 0.831 0.204 1.000 0.837 0.139 1.000
log23 0.719 0.174 1.000 0.753 0.138 1.000 0.754 0.081 1.000
sB 1 0.934 0.488 0.866 0.942 0.448 0.939 0.939 0.387 0.988
1.5 0.921 0.414 0.992 0.932 0.363 0.996 0.919 0.293 0.999
2 0.900 0.347 1.000 0.908 0.292 1.000 0.894 0.217 1.000
2.5 0.864 0.288 1.000 0.875 0.231 1.000 0.856 0.156 1.000
3 0.807 0.241 1.000 0.826 0.180 1.000 0.797 0.110 1.000
TreeScan 0.2 0.942 0.477 0.964 0.954 0.444 0.981 0.975 0.369 0.992
0.1 0.930 0.457 0.983 0.949 0.417 0.991 0.968 0.343 0.996
0.05 0.917 0.437 0.990 0.942 0.393 0.997 0.955 0.322 0.998
0.025 0.904 0.422 0.994 0.935 0.373 0.999 0.948 0.301 1.000
0.01 0.887 0.400 0.997 0.914 0.352 0.999 0.924 0.280 1.000

ROR, Reporting Odds Ratio; PRR, Proportional Reporting Ratio; IC, Information Component; LRT, Likelihood ratio test; GPS, Gamma Poisson Shrinker; BCPNN, Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network; sB simplified Bayes; TreeScan, Tree-based Scan Statistic; * Cutoff values for the lower bound of the 95% CI for ROR, PRR, IC, BCPNN, and sB, for EB05 for GPS, and for the p-value for LRT and TreeScan.