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Table 3 Summary statistics for patient demographics

From: Enhancement of hepatitis virus immunoassay outcome predictions in imbalanced routine pathology data by data balancing and feature selection before the application of support vector machines

Variable

HBV positive (n = 172)

HBV negative (n = 8998)

p-value

HCV positive (n = 533)

HCV negative (n = 7287)

p-value

Sex

34% female

47% female

0.0008a

36% female

45% female

0.0001a

Age mean (s.d.)

40.5 (13.9)

45.2 (18.7)

0.0001b

40.6 (14.4)

47.1 (19.2)

<0.0001b

  1. aTwo-sample test of proportions, bTwo sample t test, HBV Hepatitis B Virus, HCV Hepatitis C virus