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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2020 Feb 28;51(8):1392–1402. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720000227

Table 2.

Model performance of non-regularized and elastic net regularized logistic regressions

Logistic regression Elastic net
Mean AUC (95% CI) Model fit Mean AUC (95% CI) Model fit λ α
Year 1
 Eating disorder diagnosis 0.48 (0.41–0.56) Extremely poor 0.62 (0.53–0.71) Poor 0.070 0.2
 Binge eating 0.69 (0.65–0.73) Poor 0.77 (0.73–0.81) Fair 0.082 0.8
 Compensatory behaviors 0.83 (0.80–0.86) Good 0.88 (0.87–0.90) Good 0.309 0.1
 Underweight BMI 0.80 (0.74–0.85) Good 0.93 (0.91–0.95) Excellent 0.025 1
Year 2
 Eating disorder diagnosis 0.47 (0.40–0.55) Extremely poor 0.61 (0.56–0.67) Poor 0.110 0.3
 Binge eating 0.64 (0.61–0.68) Poor 0.71 (0.68–0.74) Fair 0.150 0.3
 Compensatory behaviors 0.72 (0.66–0.77) Fair 0.85 (0.81–0.89) Good 0.100 0.5
 Underweight BMI 0.70 (0.65–0.77) Fair 0.89 (0.86–0.91) Good 0.178 0.3

AUC, Area Under the Receiving Operating Characteristics Curve; BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval.

The λ (penalization) and α (mixing) parameters were identified through 10-fold cross-validation repeated three times for the elastic net models.