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

Table A2.

Summary of performance for each method at various cutoff points when the total sample size = 1,000,000 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 0.997 0.853 0.391 0.996 0.829 0.569 1.000 0.779 0.810
1.5 0.997 0.800 0.649 0.996 0.772 0.755 1.000 0.711 0.886
2 0.997 0.745 0.763 0.996 0.710 0.834 1.000 0.645 0.916
2.5 0.997 0.691 0.818 0.996 0.645 0.871 1.000 0.575 0.932
3 0.997 0.640 0.852 0.996 0.587 0.892 1.000 0.502 0.941
PRR 1 0.997 0.853 0.391 0.996 0.829 0.569 1.000 0.779 0.810
1.5 0.997 0.800 0.650 0.996 0.772 0.755 1.000 0.711 0.886
2 0.997 0.745 0.763 0.996 0.709 0.835 1.000 0.644 0.916
2.5 0.997 0.691 0.819 0.996 0.645 0.871 1.000 0.574 0.932
3 0.997 0.638 0.852 0.996 0.585 0.893 1.000 0.501 0.941
IC log21 0.994 0.837 0.263 0.992 0.817 0.451 1.000 0.777 0.794
log21.5 0.992 0.766 0.748 0.990 0.739 0.859 1.000 0.686 0.960
log22 0.989 0.694 0.912 0.988 0.663 0.954 1.000 0.600 0.983
log22.5 0.986 0.651 0.943 0.988 0.622 0.967 0.998 0.550 0.987
log23 0.983 0.556 0.971 0.987 0.525 0.983 0.994 0.438 0.991
LRT 0.2 0.969 0.664 0.982 0.982 0.642 0.992 0.988 0.571 0.997
0.1 0.966 0.645 0.992 0.978 0.623 0.996 0.986 0.550 0.999
0.05 0.959 0.625 0.996 0.971 0.605 1.000 0.982 0.532 0.999
0.025 0.953 0.607 0.998 0.971 0.589 1.000 0.977 0.513 0.999
0.01 0.949 0.584 1.000 0.967 0.567 1.000 0.972 0.492 1.000
GPS 1 0.954 0.641 0.998 0.967 0.621 0.999 0.980 0.590 0.999
1.5 0.954 0.639 0.998 0.967 0.619 0.999 0.979 0.583 0.999
2 0.953 0.625 0.998 0.967 0.587 0.999 0.978 0.524 1.000
2.5 0.953 0.577 0.998 0.965 0.522 1.000 0.974 0.422 1.000
3 0.952 0.501 0.998 0.964 0.428 1.000 0.963 0.314 1.000
sB 1 0.976 0.756 0.753 0.983 0.743 0.892 0.990 0.683 0.977
1.5 0.958 0.640 0.991 0.968 0.617 0.998 0.976 0.545 1.000
2 0.941 0.537 1.000 0.962 0.515 1.000 0.970 0.426 1.000
2.5 0.921 0.450 1.000 0.949 0.420 1.000 0.958 0.324 1.000
3 0.889 0.372 1.000 0.938 0.334 1.000 0.939 0.237 1.000
BCPNN log21 0.970 0.716 0.825 0.971 0.681 0.937 0.968 0.609 0.989
log21.5 0.961 0.635 0.994 0.966 0.583 0.997 0.961 0.508 1.000
log22 0.953 0.545 1.000 0.962 0.491 0.999 0.955 0.411 1.000
log22.5 0.941 0.472 1.000 0.955 0.409 1.000 0.943 0.326 1.000
log23 0.926 0.406 1.000 0.948 0.335 1.000 0.932 0.247 1.000
TreeScan 0.2 0.972 0.688 0.980 0.979 0.651 0.992 0.985 0.574 0.999
0.1 0.966 0.673 0.988 0.977 0.632 0.996 0.983 0.553 0.999
0.05 0.964 0.658 0.992 0.974 0.615 0.997 0.983 0.533 1.000
0.025 0.959 0.646 0.996 0.966 0.603 1.000 0.977 0.518 1.000
0.01 0.955 0.627 0.997 0.963 0.581 1.000 0.968 0.500 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.