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. 2012 Nov-Dec;19(6):995–1002. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000872

Table 5.

Pair-wise discrimination comparison of models and summary of discrimination and calibration performance for each model

Model Experimental model (EM) Original Apfel model (OAM) Refitted Apfel model (RAM) Simplified Apfel risk score (SARS)
Diff. p Value Diff. p Value Diff. p Value Diff. p Value
Experimental model (EM)
Original Apfel model (OAM) 0.118 <0.0001
Refitted Apfel model (RAM) 0.110 <0.0001 −0.009 0.48
Simplified Apfel risk score (SARS) 0.112 <0.0001 −0.006 0.43 0.003 0.73
Refitted Sinclair model (RSM) 0.028 0.03 −0.090 0.0001 −0.082 <0.0001 −0.085 0.0001
Model AUC for test set 95% CI for AUC HL χ2 HL (p)
Experimental model (EM) 0.738 0.698 to 0.779 10.0 0.27
Original Apfel model (OAM) 0.620 0.576 to 0.665 66.9 <0.0001
Refitted Apfel model (RAM) 0.629 0.585 to 0.673 1.8 0.87
Simplified Apfel risk score (SARS) 0.626 0.584 to 0.668 0.5 0.77
Refitted Sinclair model (RSM) 0.711 0.669 to 0.752 7.4 0.50

AUC, area the under receiver operating characteristic curve; Diff, AUC difference; HL χ2, Hosmer–Lemeshow χ2; HL (p), Hosmer–Lemeshow probability > χ2; p Value, p value of difference.