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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015 Nov;16(9):e332–e339. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000560

Table 1.

Measures of model performance in validation data set. Mean performance of modeling algorithm (rows) or feature set (columns) is listed outside the table, with the best measure in boldface. Inside the table, reference performance for MV feature + LR algorithm is shown in the top left, underlined. Models using trend calculations without raw time series features (the TRD data class) along with the SVM algorithm demonstrated the best overall performance. Removing single measurement variables not subject to trend calculations did not significantly impact model performance.

Matrix of Model Performance in Validation Data
All Available Relevant Variables
Accuracy MV TS CC TRD ALL
LR 78% 69% 58% 77% 69% 70%
DT 72% 88% 80% 81% 86% 81%
NN 67% 63% 67% 72% 66% 67%
SVM 77% 89% 88% 94% 88% 87%
73% 77% 73% 81% 77%
AUROC MV TS CC TRD ALL
LR 87% 72% 60% 72% 80% 74%
DT 74% 90% 79% 83% 88% 83%
NN 82% 83% 80% 92% 79% 83%
SVM 82% 95% 96% 98% 97% 94%
81% 85% 79% 86% 86%
Variables Constrained to Trend Calculation Compatible
Accuracy MV TS CC TRD ALL
LR 83% 78% ---- 87% 84% 83%
DT 81% 81% ---- 81% 86% 82%
NN 64% 56% ---- 72% 64% 64%
SVM 73% 84% ---- 94% 91% 86%
75% 75% ---- 84% 81%
AUROC MV TS CC TRD ALL
LR 89% 79% ---- 87% 83% 85%
DT 81% 81% ---- 80% 86% 82%
NN 79% 74% ---- 92% 82% 82%
SVM 83% 91% ---- 98% 97% 92%
83% 81% ---- 89% 87%

Abbreviations:

AUROC = area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.

Data Classes:

MV = multivariate

TS = multivariate + time series

CC = multivariate + time series + clinical calculations

TRD = multivariate + trend analysis

ALL = all 1025 variables - 17

Model classes:

LR = linear regression

DT = decision tree

NN = neural network

SVM = support vector machine