Comparisons of Prediction Models of Myofascial Pain Control after Dry Needling: A Prospective Study

Table 6

Comparison of mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) in Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) scores predicted by multiple linear regression (MLR), support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN) models in forty new data sets.

Models	MAPE
Worst pain
MLR model	8.2%
SVM model	6.0%
ANN model	4.7%
Average pain
MLR model	6.7%
SVM model	5.8%
ANN model	4.4%
Present pain
MLR model	6.8%
SVM model	5.4%
ANN model	4.1%
Aggregated pain interference
MLR model	5.7%
SVM model	4.8%
ANN model	3.6%