Table 3.
Standardized difference† | ||||
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Characteristic | Pre‐IPW | IPW via LR | IPW via NN | IPW via RF |
Age | 1.059 | 0.276 | 1.060 | 0.167 |
Gender | 0.155 | 0.198 | 0.155 | 0.055 |
Residency region | 1.108 | 0.106 | 1.109 | 0.381 |
Comorbidity | 0.062 | 0.231 | 0.063 | 0.463 |
Smoking history | 0.511 | 0.031 | 0.511 | 0.169 |
Subtypes of stage IIIb | 0.239 | 0.240 | 0.238 | 0.089 |
Use of PET | 0.006 | 0.317 | 0.007 | 0.031 |
Rounded.
IPW, inverse probability weighting; LR, logistic regression; NN, neural network; PET, positron emission tomography; RF, random forest.