Table 6

Measures for accuracy calculation.

Measure

Calculation

Sensitivity (Sn)

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Specificity (Sp)

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False Discovery Rate (FDR)

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Matthew's Correlation Coefficient (MCC)

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TP: True Positives; TN: True Negatives; FP: False Positives; FN: False Negatives.

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