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Table 4 Diagnostic value of the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis with multivariate statistical analysis methods

From: Serum microRNA signatures and metabolomics have high diagnostic value in gastric cancer

Statistical method

Number of components

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

AUC (95% CI)

Youden index

Cumulative variance

PCA

11

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.445

10

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.379

9

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.195

8

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.153

7

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.127

6

92.0

96.7

0.984 (0.960, 1.000)

0.887

0.120

5

92.0

93.3

0.980 (0.952, 1.000)

0.853

0.086

4

88.0

96.7

0.976 (0.945, 1.000)

0.847

0.070

3

92.0

86.7

0.964 (0.924, 1.000)

0.787

0.047

2

84.0

93.3

0.959 (0.915, 1.000)

0.773

0.039

1

80.0

63.3

0.707 (0.567, 0.846)

0.433

0.035

PLS

5

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.812

4

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.791

3

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.690

2

92.0

100.0

0.991 (0.974, 1.000)

0.920

0.582

1

100.0

90.0

0.956 (0.895, 1.000)

0.900

0.501

OPLS

1

100.0

100.0

1.000 (1.000, 1.000)

1.000

0.853

  1. Abbreviations: AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval, PCA principal component analysis, PLS-DA partial least squares-discriminate analysis, OPLS-DA orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis