Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of tweet categories, United States, 2016–2018 (1096 days).
Predicted category | M | Model recall | Adjusted meana | SD | Min | Max | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Awareness | 15.37 | 0.70 | 21.96 | 7.56 | 2.09 | 72.85 | |
Prevention | 13.76 | 0.89 | 15.46 | 9.39 | 0.58 | 80.1 | |
Coping | 0.83 | 0.69 | 1.2 | 1.73 | 0.06 | 30.07 | |
Suicidal ideation/attempts without coping | 2.39 | 0.45 | 5.31 | 2.06 | 0.16 | 51.05 | |
Suicide cases | 12.31 | 0.77 | 15.99 | 9.1 | 0.73 | 79.41 | |
Other/irrelevantb | 55.35 | – | 40.08 | 12.59 | 4.39 | 93.38 |
SD: standard deviation.
The mean proportion per category on any given day in the observation period divided by the model’s recall (i.e. the proportion of true cases the model detects in each category).
The percentage for this category was calculated by subtracting all other adjusted mean percentages from 100.