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. 2021 Aug 10;18:124. doi: 10.1186/s12984-021-00918-z

Table 3.

Model performance metrics

Metric Across all participants Average (SD) per participant
Volume of recorded data (days) 2070 90 (0)
Sample size (5 s clips) 14,904,000 648,000 (0)
# Falls confirmed by participants 37 1.6 (2.25)
# Stumbles confirmed by participants 31 1.3 (2.55)
# Falls-related events detected by the phone 72 3.3 (3.72)
True positives (correctly classified falls) 27 1.2 (2.1)
True negatives (correctly classified non-falls) 14,903,928 647999.6 (0.89)
False positives (wrongly classified non-falls) 45 1.95 (2.65)
False negatives (wrongly classified falls) 10 0.43 (0.84)
Daily false alarm rate 0.5 0.02 (0.03)
Accuracy 99.9997 % 99.9996 % (0.0004 %)
Sensitivity 73 % 68 % (39 %)*
Specificity 99.9998 % 99.9997 % (0.0004 %)
Precision 37.5 % 41 % (41 %)**
F1-score 0.495 0.51 (0.33)*

*n = 13, only participants who experienced at least one fall, were included; **n = 16, only participants whose phone classified at least one event as a fall, were included