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Table 2 Comparison of variable selection methods using diagnostic accuracy over 1000 repetitions for the testing set

From: Application of group smoothly clipped absolute deviation method in identifying correlates of psychiatric distress among college students

Variable selection method

Sensitivitya

Specificitya

LR + ap

LR-bn

Total Accuracya

SCAD

0.494

0.852

3.659

0.595

0.704

LASSO

0.499

0.849

3.660

0.589

0.705

Stepwise

0.516

0.151

0.609

3.350

0.302

  1. aGreater is better; bSmaller is better; pPositive likelihood ratio; nNegative likelihood ratio