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. 2017 Apr 6;12(4):e0174708. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174708

Table 4. Performance characteristics for the SVM models.

Train
(n = 147,799; 64%)
Test
(n = 36,950; 16%)
AUC PPV Sensitivity Specificity AUC PPV Sensitivity Specificity
Vitals 0.67 0.22 0.56 0.67 0.67 0.22 0.56 0.68
CC 0.84 0.34 0.78 0.75 0.83 0.32 0.75 0.75
BoW 0.89 0.40 0.83 0.80 0.86 0.38 0.78 0.79
Topics 0.86 0.34 0.81 0.75 0.85 0.34 0.80 0.75

Vitals—Age, Gender, Severity, Temperature, Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate, Oxygen Saturation, Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, Pain Scale CC—Chief Complaint + Vitals BoW—Bag of Words model using Vitals + Chief Complaint + Triage Assessment Topics—Topic Model using Vitals + Chief Complaint + Triage Assessment * All Test AUCs have a 95% CI of +-0.02. A validation data set (n = 46,187; 20%) was also used as an intermediary data set between train and test to select regularization parameters. We do not show these here, for brevity.