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. 2021 Apr 29;6(2):e26909. doi: 10.2196/26909

Table 5.

Performance of the quantile regression forest model at different thresholds and the average time to predict a hypoglycemic event.

Metric 30-minute prediction horizon 60-minute prediction horizon

Threshold 1 Threshold 2 Threshold 3 Threshold 1 Threshold 2 Threshold 3
Sensitivity (%) 98.54 99.27 99.51 97.72 98.29 98.99
Specificity (%) 98.57 97.56 96.68 98.49 97.06 95.53
False alerts (n) 6932 11,960 16,049 7215 14,027 21,297
False alerts with transient events as positives (n) 3736 8149 12,007 3974 9956 16,775
False alert rate (%) 22.36 35.36 43.34 22.44 37.19 46.96
Average time to predict an event (minutes) 18.78 22.95 26.51 25.24 35.08 48.35