Developing a Clustering-Based Empirical Bayes Analysis Method for Hotspot Identification

Table 4

Results for various methods using three different tests.

Method	= 0.01	= 0.05	= 0.10
Site Consistency Test (SCT)
AF	269	1109	1911
AR	110	570	1051
EB	361	1376	2182
GFMNB-based EB method	329	1352	2115
-means-based EB method	361	1396	2186
Hierarchical-based EB method	361	1395	2171
Method Consistency Test (MCT)
AF	7	43	88
AR	2	27	63
EB	7	47	100
GFMNB-based EB method	8	51	103
-means-based EB method	7	49	103
Hierarchical-based EB method	7	47	99
Total Rank Difference Test (TRDT)
AF	365	7599	20721
AR	5944	24259	49548
EB	217	3543	14132
GFMNB-based EB method	162	3226	10195
-means-based EB method	220	3273	12391
Hierarchical-based EB method	220	3420	14068

Note. Bold number indicates the best result.