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Significance Analysis of Prognostic Signatures

v2.10.0 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Entered 3.1 · Apr 17, 2015

Removed after 3.5 · Apr 25, 2017

1.0 In 5 of 49 releases 3.23

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Functions implementing the Significance Analysis of Prognostic Signatures method (SAPS). SAPS provides a robust method for identifying biologically significant gene sets associated with patient survival. Three basic statistics are computed. First, patients are clustered into two survival groups based on differential expression of a candidate gene set. P_pure is calculated as the probability of no survival difference between the two groups. Next, the same procedure is applied to randomly generated gene sets, and P_random is calculated as the proportion achieving a P_pure as significant as the candidate gene set. Finally, a pre-ranked Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is performed by ranking all genes by concordance index, and P_enrich is computed to indicate the degree to which the candidate gene set is enriched for genes with univariate prognostic significance. A SAPS_score is calculated to summarize the three statistics, and optionally a Q-value is computed to estimate the significance of the SAPS_score by calculating SAPS_scores for random gene sets.

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Schmolze, D., Beck, A., & Haibe-Kains, B. (2017). saps: Significance Analysis of Prognostic Signatures (Version 2.10.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/saps

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for saps version 2.10.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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