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Table 7 Results of independent testing of our method on 6 datasets with different P:N ratios of positive to negative instances

From: Predicting protein-binding regions in RNA using nucleotide profiles and compositions

P:N

Sensitivity

Specificity

Accuracy

PPV

NPV

MCC

1:1

72.50%

91.90%

82.20%

89.95%

76.97%

0.656

1:2

72.40%

91.80%

85.33%

81.53%

86.93%

0.663

1:4

74.10%

91.10%

87.70%

67.55%

83.36%

0.630

1:6

77.00%

90.26%

88.37%

56.87%

95.92%

0.596

1:8

77.80%

89.68%

88.36%

48.53%

97.00%

0.554

1:10

79.10%

89.70%

88.73%

43.44%

97.72%

0.532

  1. PPV positive prediction value, NPV negative prediction value, MCC Matthews correlation coefficient