Table 2

Parameters for Clest

Clest parameter

Value

Maximum number of clusters

M = 10 for microarray data

M = 5 for simulated data

Number of learning/test set iterations

B = 20

Number of reference datasets

B₀ = 20

Size of learning sets ^b

2n/3

Clustering procedure

PAM

Classifier

Linear discriminant analysis with diagonal covariance matrix - DLDA

Reference null distribution

Uniformity hypothesis

External index

Fowlkes and Mallows [27] external index, FM

Maximum p-value

p_max = 0.05

Minimum difference statistic

d_min = 0.05

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