Table 1
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List of the motif significance measures. |
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| Symbol |
Measure |
Formula |
Range |
Type |
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| Sn |
Sensitivity |
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[0,1] |
C |
| Sp |
Specificity |
 |
[0,1] |
C |
| PPV |
Positive Predicted Value |
 |
[0,1] |
C |
| Fpr |
False Positive Rate |
 |
[-1,1] |
C |
| F |
F-Measure |
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[0,1] |
1 |
| Corr |
Correlation |
 |
[-1,1] |
C |
| Dp |
Discrimination Power |
 |
[-1,1] |
C |
| IG |
Information Gain |
 |
[0, + ∞[ |
IT |
| Pratt |
Pratt Measure |
 |
]- ∞, + ∞[ |
IT |
| LogOdd |
LogOdd |
 |
]- ∞, + ∞[ |
IT |
| ZScore |
Z-Score |
 |
]- ∞, + ∞[ |
IT |
| J |
J-Measure |
 |
[0, + ∞[ |
H |
| I |
Mutual Information |
 |
[0, 1] |
H |
| S |
Surprise Measure |
 |
[0, + ∞[ |
H |
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Description of the fourteen significance measures according to the respective type (C = Class based; IT = Information-Theoretic based; H = Hybrid). For each measure the abbreviation symbol used throughout the paper, the formula and the respective range. | ||||
Ferreira and Azevedo Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2007 2:16 doi:10.1186/1748-7188-2-16 |
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