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. 2020 Apr 7;11:239. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00239

Table 4.

Model performance based on 10-fold cross-validation.

Simple Differences Complicated Differences
Test for Sufficiency Test for Sufficiency
Univariate LR Theoretically Informed Model Multiple LR Random Forests
Average Suicidal Desire
& Capability for Suicide
All Variables All Variables
Entire Sample (NSSI Only: N = 319; Suicide Attempt with or without NSSI: N = 635)
AUC 0.55 [0.45, 0.65] 0.58 [0.48, 0.69] 0.73 [0.63, 0.82] 0.72 [0.63, 0.82]
Precision 0.72 0.74 0.84 0.84
Recall 0.68 0.58 0.75 0.73
Brier 0.45 0.42 0.27 0.28
Subsample (NSSI Only: N = 319; Suicide Attempt without NSSI: N = 52)
AUC 0.57 [0.36, 0.78] 0.60 [0.38, 0.81] 0.70 [0.48, 0.91] 0.74 [0.54, 0.93]
Precision 0.19 0.20 0.34 0.30
Recall 0.74 0.76 0.62 0.77
Brier 0.45 0.45 0.23 0.29

AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; AUCs of 0.50, chance-level discriminative accuracy; AUCs of 1.0, perfect discriminative accuracy; precision, positive predictive value; recall, sensitivity; precision and recall both range from 0 to 1; with higher values indicating better model performance; Brier scores of 0, perfect calibration; with scores closer to 0 indicating better calibration; LR, logistic regression.