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. 2012 Jun;19(e1):e13–e20. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000741

Table 2.

Comparison of prediction performances on new data using the selected features

Scenario ROC AUC Average accuracy
SW EN LL BOSS SW EN LL BOSS
A90 0.86 0.92 0.93 0.96 0.60 0.66 0.71 0.85
A70 0.78 0.82* 0.82* 0.82 0.59 0.60 0.61 0.70
A50 0.64 0.65 0.66 0.67 0.54 0.53 0.53 0.57
B90 0.87 0.92 0.93 0.94 0.60 0.68 0.71 0.80
B70 0.70 0.77* 0.78* 0.77 0.54 0.57 0.58 0.64
B50 0.64 0.68* 0.67* 0.68 0.54 0.54 0.54 0.56

Except where indicated (*), BOSS improved on the three reference methods (p<0.05, one-sided paired t test).

EN, elastic net; LL, logistic lasso; ROC AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic; SW, stepwise regression.