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Table 6 Summary of validation values across original estimates, SMOTE, and RUS

From: Mental pain and lifetime suicide attempts in early adolescence: a preliminary study

Measure

Original estimates (from the first analytic step)

Synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE)

Random undersampling (RUS)

AUC

Sensitivity

Specificity

AUC

SMOTE

Sensitivity

SMOTE

Specificity

SMOTE

AUC

RUS

Sensitivity

RUS

Specificity

RUS

Suicidal cognitions (SCS-R)

0.87

0.71

0.92

0.87

0.84

0.75

0.88

0.80

0.80

Entrapment (E-SF)

0.88

0.76

0.89

0.87

0.86

0.80

0.87

0.84

0.80

Mental pain (UP3)

0.89

0.82

0.92

0.87

0.87

0.80

0.90

0.85

0.85

Depression (PHQ-A)

0.74

0.59

0.92

0.72

0.78

0.55

0.77

0.72

0.65

  1. The outcome measure was endorsement of suicide attempt with some intent to die
  2. SCS-R Spanish version of suicide cognitions scale-revised; PHQ-A patient health questionnaire-adolescent version; UP3 the unbearable psychache scale. Entrapment. E-SF entrapment scale short-form; SMOTE synthetic minority oversampling technique; RUS random undersampling