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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2023 Oct 21;156:107247. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107247

Table 5.

Percentage of students by predicted outcome under OLS and lasso models.

Initiation (n = 833)
Lasso predicts NO Lasso predicts YES
OLS predicts No 86.6 % 4.4 %
OLS predicts Yes 2.5 % 6.5 %
Recent sex (n = 1,294)
Lasso predicts NO Lasso predicts YES
OLS predicts No 72.4 % 2.6 %
OLS predicts Yes 2.2 % 22.8 %
Sex without a condom (n = 1,282)
Lasso predicts NO Lasso predicts YES
OLS predicts No 85.4 % 2.3 %
OLS predicts Yes
3.1 %
9.2 %

OLS = Ordinary least squares.