Research Article

Exploration of Black Boxes of Supervised Machine Learning Models: A Demonstration on Development of Predictive Heart Risk Score

Table 4

Validation of NLHRS-based risk prediction models.

AssessmentTest statistic/criteriaIdeal valueANN-RSSVM-RS

Overall discrimination and calibrationBrier mean probability score00.1420.115
Overall comparison of modelsSpiegelhalter’s Z-statistic (-value)0 −1.791 (0.073)−1.443 (0.150)
CalibrationH-statistic (-value)<20 ()13.719 (0.089)14.427 (0.071)
DiscriminationAUC10.8760.888