Research Article

Specific Metabolic Fingerprint of a Dietary Exposure to a Very Low Dose of Endosulfan

Table 2

Intercept values ( ) of permutation test for the PLS-DA models.

PLS-DA modelFemaleMale
NonexposedExposedNonexposedExposed

Plasma0.401−0.3030.402−0.3010.505−0.4060.508−0.411
Bone marrow0.581−0.3220.585−0.3520.912−0.2050.908−0.158
Liver 0.077−0.3070.084−0.3160.181−0.3500.185−0.346

The intercept values ( ) represent the values of and of a purely random model. intercept <0.3 and intercept <0.05 indicate a robust model.