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Based on the initial training set, the intensity at each of the consecutive 15,154 M/Z values was first compared using a two-sided Wilcoxon test (see methods) Figure 1shows the pattern of the resulting two-sided Wilcoxon test p-values generated on a training set consisting of 80 cancer patients and 45 controls randomly chosen from the larger data set, with the M/Z values on the x-axis and the negative logarithm (base 10) of the Wilcoxon test p-values on the y-axis.
The y-axis shows the true positive rate or sensitivity.
A parameter with no overlap between the two conditions will discriminate perfectly and has an ROC curve passing along the y-axis to the upper left corner (100% true positive rate and 0% false positive rate) to end again in the upper right corner with an area under the curve of 1.0.
In 1637, René Descartes linked the featureless plane of Greek geometry to the symbols and formulas of Arabic algebra by imposing a coordinate system (conventionally, a horizontal x-axis and a vertical y-axis) on the geometric plane and using numbers to measure distances between points.
The survival curve was atypical in that its y-axis presented a patient's chance of not developing a disease instead of the more standard "chance of survival".