We were unable to establish a temporal relationship between high anti-HHV-8 antibody titers and the multitude of predictors evaluated in this study.
In the future, we plan to use machine learning ensemble (or bagging) techniques to integrate different predictors evaluated in this research and some other predictors such as IUP [ 12] together to improve disorder prediction.
A backward elimination procedure was used in multivariate analyses; results are presented from a full model, which included all predictors evaluated in the study, and a final model, which included only predictors with statistical significance.
The potential poisoning-related fatality predictors evaluated in this study included demographic characteristics (age and gender), exposure types (acute or chronic), nature of the exposure agents, the number of exposure agents (multiple or single), suicidal intent as the cause of poisoning, and concomitant use of alcohol.
The prediction accuracies of the NNA predictor evaluated by jackknife test are shown in the IFS curve (Figure 2).
We think that minute SPIF measurement which has better sensitivity and minute SPEF measurement which has better specificity compared with available traditional predictors [ 1] may be used as a potential bedside weaning predictor when evaluated in comprehensive studies.
In Table 1, the potential predictor variables evaluated in the preliminary models for each of the 28 therapy-specific dependent variables are indicated by an X.
The survival predictor was evaluated in the training cohort (Sg, n=57) using a leave-one-out cross-validation, and tested on the independent validation cohort (HK, n=43 and Zurich, n=55).
Fifteen articles were considered eligible for inclusion and 23 predictors were evaluated in more than one study in men and/or women.
Performance, reliability and comparability of IEDB and NetMHC predictors were evaluated in details (Trolle et al. 2015; Kim et al. 2014; Peters et al. 2006).
