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. 2020 Sep 25;22(9):e20268. doi: 10.2196/20268

Table 9.

Item response theory–based electronic intensive care unit mortality prediction accuracy stratified by classification difficulty index.

Number of cases CDIa LRb (%) LDAc (%) KNNd (%) DTe (%) NBf (%) NNg (%)
Balanced

2 3.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 50.0 100.0 100.0

61 2.5 82.0 82.0 75.4 78.7 86.9 85.2

160 2.0 81.3 82.5 75.0 76.3 81.9 83.4

621 1.5 86.2 86.8 74.5 79.2 83.7 87.9

3167 1.0 83.7 82.9 72.1 78.3 66.3 85.4

4998 0.5 74.0 72.7 64.7 73.1 55.2 80.9

4776 0.0 70.9 70.1 58.5 71.5 57.3 80.0

3864 −0.5 73.8 74.5 63.3 74.4 67.4 84.3

2858 −1.0 85.4 85.5 74.4 84.8 83.1 91.8

1183 −1.5 92.5 92.6 84.3 91.7 91.9 96.4

240 −2.0 97.1 97.1 91.7 95.8 96.3 97.9

10 −2.5 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Imbalanced

6 3.0 66.7 83.3 83.3 66.6 66.6 83.3

58 2.5 82.8 81.0 69.0 75.9 87.9 84.5
  215 2.0 79.1 78.6 67.0 72.6 76.3 82.3

1369 1.5 79.8 79.0 65.4 75.2 72.8 85.7

4776 1.0 72.2 72.4 61.6 74.8 58.4 83.9

6657 0.5 67.3 67.0 72.1 57.3 57.3 83.1

7068 0.0 76.4 76.9 70.0 78.8 70.3 88.5

6396 −0.5 87.1 87.3 83.2 87.3 83.4 93.7

4265 −1.0 94.8 95.0 92.0 94.3 92.7 97.7

1763 -1.5 98.0 98.0 97.1 97.9 97.3 99.4

317 -2.0 99.1 99.1 98.4 98.4 98.4 99.1

20 -2.5 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

aCDI: classification difficulty index.

bLR: logistic regression.

cLDA: linear discriminant analysis.

dKNN: K-nearest neighbor.

eDT: decision tree.

fNB: naive Bayes.

gNN: neural network.