The number of mixture component in miRNA and non-miRNA models


We performed the cross-validation test using different number of mixture
component. The procedure of cross-validation is the same as described in
the main text. The results were shown in Figure S3 for a miRNA model and
S4 for non-miRNA models.


Figure S3. Sensitivity and specificity in test data. "ncomp" is the number of
mixture components in a miRNA model.
For a miRNA model, using a mixture of two or three components is
better than a single Gaussian.






Figure S4. Sensitivity and specificity in test data. "ncomp" is the number of
mixture components in non-miRNA models.
For non-miRNA models, using a mixture of more than 3 components is
better than that of 1-3 components.