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Table 1 Wallace's coefficients and respective confidence intervals testing the ability of several methods to predict the pherotype.

From: Pherotypes are driving genetic differentiation within Streptococcus pneumoniae

Parameter

W (95% CI)

Wia

Serotype

0.730 (0.689;0.772)

0.584

PFGE cluster

0.771 (0.726;0.816)

0.584

Sequence type

0.982 (0.964;1)

0.621

Clonal complex

0.986 (0.961;0.992)

0.621

  1. aWi is the expected Wallace coefficient if the classification method is independent of the pherotype.