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Table 3 Performance of penalised logistic regression, Bayesian generalised, and decision tree models for training and test sets

From: Prediction of malaria positivity using patients’ demographic and environmental features and clinical symptoms to complement parasitological confirmation before treatment

Model

Data set

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

AUC (%)

penalised logistic regression

training

0.750

0.821

0.952

0.411

84

 

Test

0.818

0.714

0.931

0.455

83

Bayesian generalised model

training

0.765

0.821

0.953

0.426

84

 

Test

0.818

0.714

0.931

0.455

76

decision trees

training

0.826

0.500

0.886

0.378

66

 

Test

0.818

0.818

0.900

0.400

69