Research Article

Syndrome Differentiation of IgA Nephropathy Based on Clinicopathological Parameters: A Decision Tree Model

Table 2

Patients’ distribution of predicting syndromes based on the decision tree without MEST scores.

Predicted syndromes Recorded syndromes
Qi deficiency of spleen and kidney () Deficiency of both qi and yin ()Other types ()

Qi deficiency of spleen and kidney255 (93.4)38 (57.6)21 (67.7)
Deficiency of both qi and yin13 (4.8)25 (37.9)3 (9.7)
Other types5 (1.8)3 (4.5)7 (22.6)

Note: the accuracy of the model was 77.6%.