Table 3 Hyperparameters chosen by grid search for the base regressors (Additional file 1: Table S1)

Partial Least Square Regresion

Max iterations = 200, N components = 2

Random Forest Regression

Max depth = 8, No. estimators = 200, Min samples split = 200, Max samples = 0.5

Ada Boost Regression

DecisionTreeRegressor (Max depth = 2), No. estimators = 1000, Loss = Square, Learning rate = 1