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Table 2 Comparison of ZIFA to PPCA and FA on four biological data sets

From: ZIFA: Dimensionality reduction for zero-inflated single-cell gene expression analysis

Data set

Method

Subset size

  

25

100

250

1000

Differentiating T cells [3]

FA

86±6.6 %

84±4.6 %

82±4.9 %

84±8.8 %

 

PPCA

88±6.3 %

87±4.1 %

89±4.5 %

100±0.3 %

11 populations [15]

FA

97±3.7 %

96±2.5 %

96±2.1 %

95±2.7 %

 

PPCA

98±3.2 %

97±2.0 %

97±1.5 %

99±0.6 %

Myoblasts [5]

FA

97±3.3 %

97±2.4 %

96±2.7 %

95±2.7 %

 

PPCA

97±3.2 %

96±2.3 %

96±2.1 %

99±1.7 %

Bone marrow [14]

FA

98±3.0 %

97±2.0 %

97±1.7 %

97±1.7 %

 

PPCA

98±3.1 %

97±1.8 %

97±1.4 %

97±1.3 %

  1. The column headings are the number of genes in the data set (selected at random). Percentages denote the proportion of genes for which ZIFA provided a better fit than FA/PPCA, averaged across 100 replicates