Table 3.
Performance of classification algorithms for 5 categories of social support.
| Social support | Results | Naïve Bayesian | Logistic regression | Support Vector Machine (polynomial kernel) | Random forest | Decision tree | AdaBoost |
| COMa | Accuracy | .696 | .787 | .783 | .771 | .767 | .804f |
| AUC | .839 | .817 | .768 | .848 | .75 | .852f | |
| PESb | Accuracy | .713 | .830 | .840f | .830 | .81 | .817 |
| AUC | .823 | .787 | .681 | .825f | .687 | .817 | |
| PISc | Accuracy | .753 | .813 | .823f | .767 | .779 | .801 |
| AUC | .824 | .83 | .783 | .837 | .717 | .859f | |
| SESd | Accuracy | .893 | .901 | .970f | .967 | .963 | .963 |
| AUC | .749 | .867f | .656 | .851 | .671 | .668 | |
| SISe | Accuracy | .851 | .880 | .943f | .931 | .937 | .914 |
| AUC | .893f | .803 | .745 | .86 | .766 | .869 |
aCOM: companionship.
bPES: providing emotional support.
cPIS: providing informational support.
dSES: seeking emotional support.
eSIS: seeking informational support.
fdenotes the best performer for each row.