Research Article

Amino Acid Biosignature in Plasma among Ischemic Stroke Subtypes

Table 2

Figures of merit for PLS-DA models to discriminate chronic ischemic stroke from control/healthy plasma samples.

ParametersModel #1Model #2

Sensitivity (training set)0.9610.902
Specificity (training set)0.9090.818
EFR (training set)0.8700.870
Sensitivity (test set)0.9550.955
Specificity (test set)0.8000.800
EFR (test set)0.7550.720
N° of LV32
Variance in X66.02%79.64%
Variance in Y63.63%31.62%
Q20.4780.176
AUROC0.8000.800

Considering the detection of two control samples as outliers by the studentized y residuals at 95% confidence level, the EFR is 0.961 and 0.955 for the training and test sets, respectively.