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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2016 May;17(4):461–471. doi: 10.1007/s11121-015-0628-x

Table 5.

Observed vs. predicted risk for program and long-term attrition

Points Risk category Derivation set Validation set


N (%) Observed risk Estimated risk N (%) Observed risk Estimated risk
Program attrition
 0–7 Low 494 (44.4) 0.168 0.165 267 (47.8) 0.172 0.168
 8–10 Intermediate 390 (35.0) 0.290 0.300 186 (33.3) 0.323 0.298
 11+ High 229 (20.6) 0.450 0.440 105 (18.8) 0.495 0.443
Long-term attrition
 0–5 Low 567 (49.0) 0.302 0.308 276 (48.8) 0.304 0.312
 6–7 Intermediate 343 (29.6) 0.440 0.439 166 (29.4) 0.452 0.438
 8+ High 248 (21.4) 0.581 0.566 123 (21.8) 0.561 0.558