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Table 1 Spearman and Pearson correlation coefficients between similarity value and absolute annotation size as well as between variance in similarity value and annotation size

From: Evaluating the effect of annotation size on measures of semantic similarity

Similarity measure

Spearman

Pearson

 

Yeast

Synthetic GO

Synthetic HPO

Yeast

Synthetic GO

Synthetic GO

 

Average

Variance

Average

Variance

Average

Variance

Average

Variance

Average

Variance

Average

Variance

GIC (Graph Information Content)

0.929780

0.251586

0.970924

–0.773449

0.953247

–0.980159

0.861348

0.117734

0.831167

–0.744321

0.802873

–0.958817

NTO (Normalized Term Overlap)

0.178345

–0.860012

0.248990

–0.976335

0.123304

–0.988240

–0.014072

–0.682683

–0.009088

–0.574883

–0.158914

–0.593458

UI (Union Intersection)

0.892631

0.298097

0.879582

–0.934921

0.729942

–0.995599

0.788675

0.030649

0.777515

–0.914405

0.736711

–0.935415

BMA with Jiang, Conrath 1997

0.960133

–0.892027

0.998773

–0.993506

0.999351

–0.996609

0.892576

–0.812184

0.895020

–0.629497

0.907974

–0.692269

BMA with Lin 1998

0.980519

–0.800362

0.998918

–0.994733

0.999134

–0.998052

0.925181

–0.772250

0.896497

–0.638574

0.917599

–0.677309

BMA with Resnik 1995

0.980519

–0.717457

0.998773

–0.994228

0.998918

–0.998124

0.939044

–0.703981

0.895107

–0.642652

0.917738

–0.675426

BMA with Schlicker 2006

0.980519

–0.800362

0.998918

–0.994733

0.999134

–0.998052

0.925181

–0.772250

0.896497

–0.638574

0.917599

–0.677309