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. 2025 Aug 12;13:1537098. doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1537098

Table 2.

Comparative performance metrics across machine learning models and validation sets.

Model Dataset Accuracy mean Accuracy std F1 mean F1 std ROC AUC mean ROC AUC std Precision Recall
CatBoost Cross-validation 0.918 0.015 0.892 0.014 0.923 0.018 0.875 0.912
CatBoost Test 0.905 0.014 0.881 0.013 0.911 0.017 0.862 0.901
CatBoost External Val. 0.875 0.016 0.852 0.015 0.892 0.017 0.833 0.872
Random Forest Cross-validation 0.832 0.016 0.812 0.014 0.853 0.018 0.802 0.823
Random Forest Test 0.845 0.015 0.828 0.013 0.864 0.017 0.815 0.842
Random Forest External Val. 0.812 0.016 0.792 0.014 0.838 0.017 0.783 0.801
Gradient Boost Cross-validation 0.824 0.019 0.794 0.017 0.842 0.021 0.782 0.807
Gradient Boost Test 0.837 0.018 0.812 0.016 0.853 0.020 0.798 0.827
Gradient Boost External Val. 0.803 0.019 0.774 0.017 0.828 0.020 0.762 0.787
K Neighbors Cross-validation 0.854 0.013 0.841 0.015 0.881 0.015 0.832 0.851
K Neighbors Test 0.868 0.012 0.854 0.014 0.892 0.014 0.843 0.865
K Neighbors External Val. 0.842 0.013 0.824 0.015 0.873 0.015 0.813 0.836
Linear SVC Cross-validation 0.826 0.017 0.803 0.013 0.848 0.019 0.795 0.812
Linear SVC Test 0.835 0.016 0.815 0.012 0.857 0.018 0.805 0.825
Logistic Regression Cross-validation 0.89 0.02 0.86 0.025 0.91 0.018 0.87 0.84
Logistic Regression Test 0.85 0.03 0.86 0.014 0.86 0.035 0.95 0.75
Logistic Regression External Val. 0.875 0.02 0.667 0.024 0.95 0.016 0.6 0.75