Table 2.

Summary of the test datasets

ID	Type	Sample size	# cell types
GSE60424	RNAseq	4+4+3+3+3+3	6
GSE118829	RNAseq	10+10+10+10+10	6
SimBulk	simulated	20+20	5
GSE19830	microarray	11	3

Column ‘ID’ is the data identifier used in this study (same as the Gene Expression Omnibus (43) accession id of the original data, if applicable), ‘Type’ indicates how the data was produced, ‘Sample size’ provides the numbers of samples in sample groups, and ‘# cell types’ indicates number of cell types utilized in this study.