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Table 2 Classification results from multilevel PLS-DA and PLS-DA

From: Prognostic value of metabolic response in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy

    

Class. model

No. of LVs

Variance

X/Y

(%)

Sensitivity/

Specificity (%)

Class. accuracy

(%)

Permutation

p-value

Paired data

All samples

Control vs Treatment

(n = 65p)

Multilevel PLS-DA

2

58.9/50.9

87.9/87.9

87.9

< 0.001

 

Partial response

Control vs Treatment

(n = 37p)

Multilevel PLS-DA

2

55.7/61.7

80.0/80.0

80.0

< 0.001

 

Stable disease

Control vs Treatment

(n = 28p)

Multilevel PLS-DA

2

63.2/61.3

88.7/88.7

88.7

< 0.001

 

Survivors

Control vs Treatment

(n = 44p)

Multilevel PLS-DA

2

60.0/50.5

83.0/83.0

83.0

< 0.001

 

Non-survivors

Control vs Treatment

(n = 19p)

Multilevel PLS-DA

2

70.6/63.9

82.5/82.5

82.5

0.006

Unpaired data

All samples

Pre- vs

Post-treatment

(n = 65p)

PLD-DA

2

50.3/29.2

80.7/57.1

68.9

< 0.001

 

Pre-treatment

Partial response vs

Stable disease

(n = 48)

(n = 32)

PLS-DA

2

51.5/19.3

56.7/60.2

58.4

0.231

 

Post-treatment

Partial response vs

Stable disease

(n = 41)

(n = 29)

PLS-DA

NaN

-

-

-

-

 

Pre-treatment

Survivors vs

Non-survivors

(n = 57)

(n = 20)

PLS-DA

NaN

-

-

-

-

 

Post-treatment

Survivors vs

Non-survivors

(n = 47)

(n = 21)

PLS-DA

3

62.8/32.1

58.4/75.3

70.1

0.009

 

Post-treatment

Epirubicin vs

Paclitaxel

(n = 29)

(n = 23)

PLS-DA

2

45.7/26.8

45.0/48.3

46.5

0.245

  1. The sensitivity is for detecting a treatment/stable disease/non-survivor/Paclitaxel spectrum; Variance X/Y, amount of variance from X/Y explained by the model; NaN, no valid model; p, pairs