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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2013 Feb 4;66(4):398–407. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.11.008

Table 4.

Sensitivity and specificity of classification in EFFECT-2 sample.

Classification method Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value Negative Predictive value
Classification tree 0.462 0.820 0.616 0.709
Bagged classification tree 0.451 0.849 0.653 0.712
Random forest 0.378 0.897 0.696 0.697
Boosted classification tree (depth 1) 0.453 0.876 0.695 0.719
Boosted classification tree (depth 2) 0.491 0.847 0.667 0.726
Boosted classification tree (depth 3) 0.492 0.828 0.642 0.722
Boosted classification tree (depth 4) 0.500 0.820 0.635 0.724
Support vector machines 0.401 0.887 0.690 0.703