“…In statistical prediction, the following three cross-validation methods are often used to examine a predictor for its effectiveness in practical application: independent dataset test, subsampling test, and jackknife test (Chou and Zhang, 1995). However, as elucidated in Chou and Shen (2008) and demonstrated by Eqs.28-32 of Chou (2011), among the three cross-validation methods, the jackknife test is deemed the least arbitrary (most objective) that can always yield a unique result for a given benchmark dataset, and hence has been increasingly used and widely recognized by investigators to examine the accuracy of various predictors (Georgiou et al, 2009;Zeng et al, 2009;Esmaeili et al, 2010;Mohabatkar, 2010;Qiu et al, 2010;Hu et al, 2011aHu et al, , 2011bHuang et al, 2011aHuang et al, , 2011bLin et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2011;Xiao et al, 2011). Accordingly, the jackknife test, also known as Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation (LOOCV) (Huang et al, 2008;Cai et al, 2010;Huang et al, 2009Huang et al, , 2010aHuang et al, , 2010b) was adopted here to examine the quality of the present predictor.…”