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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2020;74(1):55–63. doi: 10.3233/JAD-190822

Table 3.

Performance of machine learning models in classifying participants with stable cognition (SC) from participants with declining cognition (DC) in ADNI sample

Model Sensitivity, % (CI) Specificity, % (CI) PPV, % (CI) NPV, % (CI) Accuracy, % (CI)
Decision trees (DT) 79.5 (72.1–85.6) 21.5 (11.3–35.3) 75.0 (71.8–78.0) 26.2 (16.1–39.5) 64.9 (57.8–71.4)
k-Nearest 80.1 33.3 78.0 36.2 68.3
Neighborhood (kNN) (72.8–86.1) (20.8–47.9) (74.3–81.4) (25.2–48.3) (61.4–74.7)

PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.