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. 2023 Nov 8;25:e48754. doi: 10.2196/48754

Table 5.

Pooled mean estimates of highest specificity by several factors.

Group Studies, Na Sample size, N Specificity (%), range Pooled mean specificity, mean (95% CIb) Heterogeneity measures Test for subgroup differences (P value)





τ2 Q (P value) I2 (%)
Algorithms .78

Random forest 5 10,705 0.56-1.00 0.90 (0.71-1.00) 0.0658 208.5 (<.001) 98.1

Support vector machine 3 10,554 0.88-1.00 0.96 (0.84-1.00) 0.0325 189.6 (<.001) 98.9

Decision tree 3 10,895 0.77-1.00 0.95 (0.76-1.00) 0.0623 608.1 (<.001) 99.7

Multilayer perceptron 3 298 0.73-0.91 0.87 (0.83-0.91) <0.0001 2.3 (.33) 11.0

Logistic regression 2 46 0.73-0.77 0.77 (0.63-0.88) 0.0000 0.1 (.71) 0.0

XGBoost 2 880 0.52-0.91 0.75 (0.31-1.00) 0.1070 150.2 (<.001) 99.3
Aims of AIc .11

Detectionb 17 41,470 0.56-1.00 0.94 (0.65-0.99) 1.3743 42,583.8 (<.001) 100

Predictionb 7 4085 0.52-0.94 0.77 (0.01-0.97) 0.3083 361.9 (<.001) 100
Status of WDd .62

Commercialb 20 44,795 0.52-1.00 0.93 (0.61-0.99) 1.4583 70,885.1 (<.001) 100

Noncommercialb 4 760 0.70-0.97 0.89 (0.41-0.98) 0.0592 96.9 (<.001) 97.6
Data sources .82

WD-basedb 15 40,959 0.52-1.00 0.93 (0.52-0.99) 1.5424 40,154.8 (<.001) 100

WD-based and othersb 9 4596 0.77-0.97 0.90 (0.84-0.94) 0.0000 318.5 (<.001) 97.8
Reference standards .88

STAIb,e 7 148 0.70-0.91 0.83 (0.65-0.92) 0.0294 10.2 (.12) 51.9

CIDIf 2 483 0.52-0.96 0.77 (0.27-1.00) 0.1470 143.3 (<.001) 99.3
Validation methods .50

K-foldb 18 44,467 0.52-1.00 0.95 (0.53-1.00) 1.8181 68,899.9 (<.001) 100

Leave-one-out 2 328 0.56-0.94 0.79 (0.34-1.00) 0.1047 15.6 (<.001) 93.6
All studiesb 24 45,555 0.52-1.00 0.92 (0.68-0.98) 1.1844 75,736.0 (<.001) 100 N/Ag

aMany studies were included more than once in each meta-analysis given that they assessed the performance of more than one algorithm.

bSpecificity was pooled using the multilevel meta-analysis method.

cAI: artificial intelligence.

dWD: wearable device.

eSTAI: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

fCIDI: Composite International Diagnostic Interview.

gN/A: not applicable.