Table 3

Sensitivity and specificity of best model and AUC on each ROC curve

AUCBest model on ROC curveAUCBest model on ROC curve
SensitivitySpecificitySensitivitySpecificity
RF model10.7190.7140.617MLR model10.699*0.6480.648
RF model20.7160.6080.720MLR model20.7110.6480.668
RF model30.7430.6070.778MLR model30.7340.6290.729
RF model40.8640.8040.823MLR model40.817*0.7480.773
RF model50.9400.8700.898MLR model50.840*0.6850.889
RF model60.9670.9290.877MLR model60.854*0.7500.834
vrRF model10.606*0.4670.685vrMLR model10.635*0.6100.605
vrRF model20.602*0.5160.632vrMLR model20.622*0.6540.542
vrRF model30.638*0.5410.671vrMLR model30.634*0.6070.594
vrRF model40.796*0.5940.874vrMLR model40.680*0.5170.835
vrRF model50.895†0.7410.919vrMLR model50.801*0.6300.950
vrRF model60.9180.8210.944vrMLR model60.798*0.6430.959
  • *Significantly lower than that in the corresponding RF model: p<0.01.

  • †Significantly lower than that in the corresponding RF model: p<0.05.

  • AUC, area under the curve; MLR, Multiple Logistic Regression; RF, Random Forest; ROC, receiver operating characteristic; vrMLR, variable restricted multiple logistic regression (use only nine variables according to a previous study); vrRF, variable restricted random forest (only use single year for prediction).