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Table 1 Percentages of correctly predicted cause-effect relationships in breast (BC), ovarian (OC) and lung cancer (LC)

From: Social networks help to infer causality in the tumor microenvironment

 

Predicted interactions

Evaluated predictions

Correct predictions

Correct predictions (%)

p value

BC 0.01

1390

121

77

63.63

0.02

BC 0.05

1999

179

106

59.21

0.15

BC 0.1

2416

212

126

59.43

0.10

OC 0.01

891

106

66

62.26

0.04

OC 0.05

1223

139

81

58.27

0.21

OC 0.1

1465

160

97

60.62

0.04

LC 0.01

545

69

48

69.56

0.00

LC 0.05

909

93

60

64.51

0.05

LC 0.1

1207

115

67

58.26

0.24

  1. The application of the method using p values of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 to construct the co-expression network resulted in different number and percentages of correct predictions. The most stringent p value (0.01) obtained the best percentages in BC, OC and LC datasets (in italics)