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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2019 Nov 6;50(2):422–436. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12598

TABLE 2.

Comparison of Models for Identifying Attempts Based on Event Data in Test Dataset

Algorithm Kappa Sens Spec PPV NPV
Attempt within six months
 Ridge regression 0.13 0.64 0.78 0.11 0.98
 Lasso regression 0.14 0.58 0.82 0.12 0.98
 Elastic net 0.18 0.76 0.81 0.14 0.99
 Unregularized logistic regression 0.17 0.67 0.82 0.14 0.98
 Decision trees 0.14 0.30 0.92 0.14 0.97
 Previous attempt 0.04 0.39 0.75 0.06 0.97
Attempt within 12 months
 Ridge regression 0.15 0.70 0.78 0.12 0.98
 Lasso regression 0.15 0.67 0.79 0.12 0.98
 Elastic net 0.16 0.64 0.82 0.13 0.98
 Unregularized logistic regression 0.13 0.52 0.83 0.12 0.98
 Decision trees 0.14 0.28 0.93 0.14 0.97
 Previous attempt 0.02 0.30 0.75 0.05 0.96
Attempt within 24 months
 Ridge regression 0.16 0.76 0.76 0.13 0.99
 Lasso regression 0.14 0.58 0.82 0.12 0.98
 Elastic net 0.13 0.52 0.83 0.11 0.98
 Unregularized logistic regression 0.13 0.52 0.83 0.12 0.98
 Decision trees 0.17 0.70 0.81 0.13 0.98
 Previous attempt 0.04 0.36 0.78 0.07 0.97