Research Article

Ensemble Methods with Voting Protocols Exhibit Superior Performance for Predicting Cancer Clinical Endpoints and Providing More Complete Coverage of Disease-Related Genes

Table 4

Voting results of KIRC.

PlatformsClassVote from all methodsVote after filteringMCC avgMCC max

KIRC-mRNAbayes0.42160.36720.24010.6590
functions0.62920.71620.03990.7785
lazy0.46820.62920.38010.8474
meta0.52610.52610.37800.7785
misc0.41760.41050.29910.6058
rules0.43850.61100.07230.6885
trees0.54210.54210.36490.7785
overall0.61100.54210.25350.8474

KIRC-miRNAbayes0.23680.1805−0.04330.5131
functions0.08890.0530−0.16980.7162
lazy0.43710.34100.18650.5249
meta0.16670.16670.11050.4542
misc0.46060.47950.32300.6590
rules0.08890.2689−0.07950.4606
trees0.05300.16670.11650.6110
overall0.16670.16670.03230.7162

KIRC-mRNA and KIRC-miRNAbayes0.47950.47950.09840.6590
functions0.26050.6885−0.06490.7785
lazy0.55140.43710.28330.8474
meta0.23000.23000.24420.7785
misc0.41050.51310.31100.6590
rules0.26050.5249−0.00360.6885
trees0.43710.52490.24070.7785
overall0.43710.52490.14290.8474

All of the measurements in the tables are MCCs, and the vote after filtering is the MCC based on the eliminated methods. The “avg” is the average of the MCCs.