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Table 2 Classification of lean and obese subjects

From: Gene expression profiling in whole blood identifies distinct biological pathways associated with obesity

 

True Positive Rate (Sensitivity)

False Positive Rate

True Negative Rate (Specificity)

False Negative Rate

Classifier

Full

Filtered

Full

Filtered

Full

Filtered

Full

Filtered

Naïve Bayes

0.96 (0.09)

0.93 (0.08)

0.18 (0.16)

0.003 (0.02)

0.82 (0.17)

0.99 (0.02)

0.03 (0.09)

0.06 (0.08)

Logistic Regression

0.98 (0.04)

0.95 (0.07)

0.11 (0.16)

0.01 (0.03)

0.89 (0.16)

0.99 (0.03)

0.01 (0.04)

0.05 (0.08)

Random Forests

0.95 (0.09)

0.94 (0.11)

0.17 (0.17)

0.10 (0.14)

0.83 (0.17)

0.89 (0.14)

0.05 (0.09)

0.06 (0.11)

ZeroR

0.81 (0.39)

0.81 (0.39)

0.81 (0.39)

0.81 (0.39)

0.19 (0.39)

0.19 (0.39)

0.19 (0.39)

0.19 (0.39)

  1. Comparison of classifier performance for predicting obese and lean phenotype with a full (183 genes) or filtered (11 gene) gene inputs