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. 2020 May 18;8(5):e15411. doi: 10.2196/15411

Table 3.

The seven best machine learning models.

Model Performance metrics and rank

Area under the ROCa curve Area under the PRCb Accuracy (%) i AICCc Sensitivity (%)
Automatic selection: random forest 0.976 (1) 0.958 (1) 92.6 (1) 0 (1) 90.7 (1)
Manual selection





CVRd 0.954 (5) 0.922 (3) 90.6 (4) 15 (4) 89.7 (2)

Naïve Bayes 0.960 (2) 0.928 (2) 90.2 (5) 25 (5) 89.0 (3)

Simple logistic 0.958 (3) 0.921 (4) 90.9 (2) 6 (2) 88.2 (4)

Logistic model tree 0.957 (4) 0.920 (5) 90.8 (3) 7 (3) 88.0 (5)

Multi-class classifier 0.932 (6) 0.868 (6) 89.9 (6) 30 (6) 86.8 (6)

Logistic regression 0.932 (7) 0.868 (7) 89.9 (7) 30 (7) 86.8 (7)

aROC: receiver operating characteristic.

bPRC: precision-recall curve.

cAICC: corrected Akaike’s information criterion (∆i AICC = AIC Ci – AIC C min).

dCVR: classification via regression.