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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Nov;62(11):1138–1147. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.03.021

Table 6.

Classification and misclassification results of the pruned rpart tree with 9 terminal nodes as well as model performance indexes for three alternative models.

Predicted Response Shift Total

Positive No Change Negative

Residual Positive 117 4 40 161
Changes in No Change 31 16 31 78
HRQOL Negative 35 10 110 110

Total 183 30 181 394


Pairwise AUC Overall AUC

1 2 3 4 5 6

Rpart 24-node tree 0.83 0.9 0.87 0.83 0.90 0.87 0.86
Rpart 9-node tree 0.70 0.77 0.69 0.70 0.76 0.69 0.72
Multinomial logit 0.71 0.75 0.71 0.71 0.75 0.71 0.72

1: No Change vs. Positive

2: Negative vs. Positive

3: Negative vs. No Change

4: Positive vs. No Change

5: Positive vs. Negative

6: No Change vs. Negative