Table 10. Feature ranking results obtained through Random Forests on the AlOlaiwi2018 diabetes type 2 dataset.

We computed the average Borda score on 1,000 executions of Random Forests. At the beginning of each execution we randomly shuffled the dataset instances.

Rank	Feature	Average borda score	s.d.
1	DR	3.907	8.451
2	Age	6.133	10.186
3	Insulin	6.843	9.626
4	BMI	17.256	14.731
5	PDBP	18.721	14.604
6	CAN	22.524	13.719
7	Sulfonylurea	23.417	14.038
8	HDL	23.645	13.851
9	FBS	23.927	13.910
10	LDL	24.437	13.546
11	Anti HTN	24.524	13.439
12	SBP	24.533	13.825
13	DDP-4 inhibitor	24.581	13.244
14	PHR	25.162	13.187
15	Urine ACR	25.177	12.435
16	DBP	25.241	13.712
17	QTc	25.412	13.239
18	TC	25.465	13.568
19	TG	25.681	13.450
20	HbA1c	25.742	12.959
21	Sex	25.959	12.897
22	GCSI present ?	26.133	12.506
23	UACR new	26.176	12.751
24	HTN	26.342	12.838
25	Metformin	26.542	12.599
26	PSBP	26.619	12.986
27	Resting tachycardia	26.623	12.656
28	GCSI score	26.641	12.466
29	Excessive fullness after meals	26.686	12.530
30	Vomiting	26.723	12.413
31	Meglitinides	26.830	12.307
32	Albuminuria	26.849	12.262
33	Loss of appetitie	26.850	12.532
34	Bloating	26.858	12.994
35	TZD	26.915	12.335
36	Retching	26.947	12.862
37	Stomach fullness	26.976	12.787
38	Orthostatic hypotension	27.144	12.411
39	GCSI new	27.215	12.696
40	Stomach or belly visibly larger	27.235	12.439
41	Smoking	27.242	12.754
42	Presence of any symptom	27.304	12.328
43	None	27.317	12.805
44	QTc prolonged	27.332	12.307
45	GCSI category	27.476	13.003
46	Nausea	27.546	12.334
47	eGFR MDRD equation	27.557	12.833
48	Not able to finish a meal	27.635	12.170

Notes.

s.d.

standard deviation