Table 6 Silhouette scores (S-scores) and Cox p-values obtained by different clustering methods

S-score

GBM

0.809 ±0.000

0.428 ±0.001

0.814 ±0.021

0.804 ±0.001

0.613 ±0.003

0.930 ±0.000

BIC

0.254 ±0.001

0.318 ±0.002

0.468 ±0.003

0.310 ±0.002

0.526 ±0.002

0.752 ±0.014

KRCCC

0.422 ±0.003

0.463 ±0.000

0.649 ±0.021

0.395 ±0.003

0.868 ±0.012

0.889 ±0.000

LSCC

0.317 ±0.003

0.513 ±0.005

0.492 ±0.003

0.387 ±0.003

0.790 ±0.011

0.844 ±0.013

COAD

0.449 ±0.000

0.470 ±0.005

0.555 ±0.001

0.468 ±0.000

0.684 ±0.005

0.793 ±0.000

p-value

GBM

0.805

0.563

0.188

8.40e-3

2.85e-5

3.12e-5

BIC

1.22e-2

3.11e-3

0.216

3.26e-4

9.20e-5

2.34e-7

KRCCC

1.16e-2

0.838

0.834

2.30e-3

8.71e-2

1.98e-4

LSCC

1.10e-2

2.36e-2

0.572

1.90e-3

1.65e-4

2.53e-4

COAD

0.171

8.53e-3

0.314

5.4e-3

1.20e-3

9.34e-4