Table 7

Score and p-value thresholds corresponding to one false positive per month

method

ED dataset

TH dataset

CC dataset

AF dataset

KULL MA

7.3/0.029

10.6/3.7 × 10^-3

25.0/2.4 × 10^-7

18.6/9.0 × 10^-6

KULL MA-DOW

6.0/0.034

8.7/4.6 × 10^-3

15.4/4.8 × 10^-5

12.0/5.9 × 10^-4

KULL MA-WK

7.3/0.025

10.6/5.3 × 10^-3

25.0/2.0 × 10^-7

18.6/1.0 × 10^-5

KULL MA-WK-DOW

6.0/0.033

8.7/5.6 × 10^-3

15.4/6.0 × 10^-5

12.0/3.2 × 10^-4

EBP MA

6.7/0.025

10.3/2.6 × 10^-3

68.6/3.7 × 10^-13

31.4/1.3 × 10^-11

EBP MA-DOW

6.0/0.029

9.2/1.9 × 10^-3

57.8/2.6 × 10^-11

30.9/1.7 × 10^-9

EBP MA-WK

6.4/0.030

10.2/2.8 × 10^-3

34.9/1.4 × 10^-12

33.9/3.0 × 10^-14

EBP MA-WK-DOW

6.0/0.019

9.1/3.2 × 10^-3

26.8/5.3 × 10^-11

29.4/6.3 × 10^-10

EBG MA

13.9/4.5 × 10^-5

20.9/2.1 × 10^-7

28.6/8.2 × 10^-11

19.9/6.1 × 10^-7

EBG MA-DOW

15.9/2.7 × 10^-6

27.9/3.4 × 10^-11

30.8/3.5 × 10^-13

23.7/2.1 × 10^-8

EBG MA-WK

13.5/6.1 × 10^-5

21.0/3.1 × 10^-7

16.7/1.2 × 10^-6

17.5/2.1 × 10^-6

EBG MA-WK-DOW

16.0/2.2 × 10^-6

26.8/1.6 × 10^-11

19.4/7.1 × 10^-8

20.9/6.0 × 10^-8

Score threshold (computed without randomization testing) and p-value threshold (computed by randomization testing, using empirical/asymptotic p-values) corresponding to an observed false positive rate of 0.0329, i.e. one false positive per month.

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