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Table 8 Mean scores on the Agincourt dataset using the WHO categories

From: Automatically determining cause of death from verbal autopsy narratives

 

Precision

Sensitivity

F 1

PCCC

CSMFA

CCCSMFA

Adult (15–69 years)

Naïve Bayes

.433

.448

.431

.432

.876

.662

Random forest

.438

.464

.436

.448

.832

.543

SVM

.502

.505

.491

.490

.857

.612

Neural network

.470

.495

.451

.480

.750

.322

Child (29 days–14 years)

Naïve Bayes

.378

.388

.370

.360

.793

.437

Random forest

.456

.450

.431

.425

.799

.453

SVM

.471

.465

.452

.440

.816

.499

Neural network

.388

.428

.374

.402

.667

.095

Neonate (<29 days)

Naïve Bayes

.276

.384

.305

.296

.610

-.060

Random forest

.292

.369

.314

.279

.673

.111

SVM

.391

.405

.373

.320

.733

.274

Neural network

.156

.265

.179

.160

.502

-.353

  1. CCCSMFA was calculated using.632 as the mean of random allocation, as suggested in [12]