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Table 2 Comparison of model performance in terms of AUC, Brier’s score, calibration intercept and calibration slope averaged over the 200 testing samples in the repeated split-sample validation

From: Predicting COVID-19 mortality risk in Toronto, Canada: a comparison of tree-based and regression-based machine learning methods

Methods

Predictive Accuracy

Calibration

 

AUC

Brier

Intercept

Slope

 

Including Hospital Use Variables

logistic

0.9610

0.0265

-0.0303

0.9827

LASSO

0.9622

0.0261

-0.0109

0.9958

GAM

0.9620

0.0262

-0.0620

0.9592

LDA

0.9559

0.0471

-1.6859

0.3630

Tree

0.9450

0.0271

-0.0893

0.9378

RF

0.9552

0.0270

-0.2993

0.5798

XGBoost

0.9669

0.0251

0.0464

1.0287

 

Excluding Hospital Use Variables

logistic

0.9423

0.0296

-0.0179

0.9879

LASSO

0.9424

0.0295

0.0145

1.0087

GAM

0.9425

0.0295

-0.0474

0.9692

LDA

0.9348

0.0536

-1.6425

0.4178

Tree

0.9276

0.0299

-0.0463

0.9697

RF

0.9190

0.0317

-0.7027

0.4783

XGBoost

0.9461

0.0288

0.0235

1.0090