Table 1

Performance test results comparing SVM results with known classification in test set (data selected from PubMed during five consecutive weeks from Feb 22, 2007 to March 28, 2007)


Test Parameters
22-Feb-07
1-Mar-07
8-Mar-07
15-Mar-07
22-Mar-07
ROC area (95% CI)
p value

One Way
Recall
0.946
0.968
0.951
0.965
0.951
0.967


Precision
0.345
0.297
0.265
0.298
0.265
(0.958–0.975)


Specificity
0.981
0.981
0.980
0.981
0.980



< 0.0001
Two Way
Recall
0.946
0.992
0.967
0.977
0.993
0.982


Precision
0.345
0.311
0.291
0.323
0.336
(0.976 – 0.987)


Specificity
0.981
0.982
0.982
0.983
0.984



One-way: key words with z scores greater than 1.96 were selected as featured key words.

Two-way: key words with z scores greater than 1.96 or less than -1.96 were selected as featured key words.

AUC: area under the curve.

CI: confident interval

Yu et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:205   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-205