Table 2.

Comparisons of three diagnoses with independent training and test sets

Algorithm	Accuracy, %	Sensitivity, %	Specificity, %	NPR, %	PPR, %
		Breast data
p‐marker	99.54	99.49	100.00	96.00	100.00
SVM	98.86	98.97	97.92	92.16	99.74
RUBoost	99.77	100.00	97.92	100.00	99.74
		Kidney data
p‐marker	99.63	99.58	100.00	97.22	100.00
SVM	90.41	99.15	31.43	84.62	90.70
RUBoost	87.82	91.10	65.71	52.27	94.71
		Prostate data
p‐marker	96.26	100.00	70.37	100.00	95.88
SVM	92.49	94.62	77.78	67.74	96.70
RUBoost	94.84	97.85	74.07	83.33	96.30