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. 2021 Nov 27;9:58. doi: 10.1186/s40462-021-00295-1

Table 2.

Accuracy, precision and recall values obtained for the 4 behaviour categories, for each algorithm. The weighted average across behaviour categories is also given

Algorithm Classification performance Running Walking Digging Motionless Weighted average
Three nearest neighbours Accuracy 98.18 96.82 97.12 97.58 97.53
Precision 95.27 91.34 *80.00 98.21 94.90
Recall 96.58 92.06 81.63 97.05 94.85
Linear support-vector machine Accuracy 96.36 95.30 94.39 96.67 96.17
Precision 93.57 87.40 *60.00 97.60 91.97
Recall 89.73 88.10 73.47 95.87 91.36
Radial basis function kernel SVM Accuracy 97.12 96.82 96.67 96.97 96.95
Precision 93.79 92.68 *75.47 97.05 93.89
Recall 93.15 90.48 81.63 97.05 93.79
Decision tree Accuracy 97.27 96.21 95.15 97.42 96.99
Precision 93.84 90.40 *64.41 98.79 93.54
Recall 93.84 89.68 77.55 96.17 93.03
Random forest Accuracy 97.58 96.67 97.73 98.03 97.65
Precision 92.76 90.63 *92.50 97.94 95.00
Recall 96.58 92.06 75.51 98.23 95.00
Gaussian Naïve Bayes Accuracy 97.73 96.82 95.61 97.73 97.40
Precision 93.38 98.17 *65.15 98.50 94.83
Recall 96.58 84.92 87.76 97.05 93.94
Linear discriminant analysis Accuracy 98.33 95.91 95.45 97.88 97.42
Precision 97.20 88.37 *67.27 98.80 94.11
Recall 95.21 90.48 75.51 97.05 93.79
Artificial neural network Accuracy 97.42 96.52 96.82 97.42 97.21
Precision 93.88 89.92 *81.82 97.35 94.01
Recall 94.52 92.06 73.47 97.64 94.09

Asterisks allow easy comparison of precision across algorithms for digging. The random forest model was retained and is in bold