Abstract
Few studies have properly compared predictive performance of different models using the same medical data set. We developed and compared 3 models (logistic regression, neural networks, and rough sets) in the in prediction of ambulation at hospital discharge following spinal cord injury. We used the multi-center Spinal Cord Injury Model System database. All models performed well and had areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve in the 0.88-0.91 range. All models had sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy greater than 80% at ideal thresholds. The performance of neural network and logistic regression methods was not statistically different (p = 0.48). The rough sets classifier performed statistically worse than either the neural network or logistic regression models (p-values 0.002 and 0.015 respectively).
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