Research Article

Predicting Metabolic Syndrome Using the Random Forest Method

Table 4

Summary of prediction performance for MS classification using Random Forest from 20 independent runs.

Prediction performanceInternal test set (10-fold CV)External test set
AccSensSpecMCCAccSensSpecMCC

Mean97.8894.5498.910.9498.1294.8099.150.95
SD0.180.650.120.000.451.490.450.01

10-fold CV: 10-fold cross-validation, Acc: accuracy, Sens: sensitivity, Spec: specificity, and MCC: Matthews correlation coefficient.