Research Article

Assessing Dry Weight of Hemodialysis Patients via Sparse Laplacian Regularized RVFL Neural Network with L2,1-Norm

Table 3

Bland–Altman plot analysis for different models.

ModelDifferences with DW (%)Limits of agreement (%)
MeanSD95% confidence intervalLower limitUpper limitNumber (ratio) of outside agreement interval

BCM-1.82322.7466-2.0706 to -1.5759-7.20663.560130/476 (6.30%)
LR0.00022.4269-0.2184 to 0.2187-4.75664.756921/476 (4.41%)
ANN (BP)0.11522.5139-0.1112 to 0.3416-4.81195.042422/476 (4.62%)
MKRR-0.08012.5007-0.3053 to 0.1451-4.98144.821223/476 (4.83%)
MKSVR-0.26382.3372-0.4743 to -0.05329-4.84464.317122/476 (4.62%)
SLapRVFL (our method)0.08672.2202-0.1133 to 0.2866-4.26504.438320/476 (4.20%)

The results are from previous work on MKSVR [39].