Table 1 Optimal supervised ML models for classifying female and male mice into sustained and phasic phenotypes for memory retrieval (MR) 1 and MR2.

From: Balancing ethics and statistics: machine learning facilitates highly accurate classification of mice according to their trait anxiety with reduced sample sizes

Sex

Retrieval

Best performing model

Females

MR1

logistic regression

Females

MR2

logistic regression

Males

MR1

random forest

Males

MR2

SVM

  1. The optimal model for each scenario was selected based on performance criteria including accuracy, specificity and sensitivity.