Table 1 Cause of death specific c-statistics for different feature sets.

From: Taxonomic signatures of cause-specific mortality risk in human gut microbiome

Cause of death

Microbiome

Covariates

Microbiome and covariates

All

0.63

0.80

0.79

Cancer

0.60

0.74

0.72

Cardiovascular

0.63

0.84

0.82

Gastrointestinal

0.62

0.63

0.69

Neurological

0.50

0.79

0.70

Respiratory

0.57

0.70

0.67

Other

0.60

0.69

0.76

  1. Survival Random Forest was trained with the Eastern population and then tested on the Western population. A c-statistic of 0.5 corresponds to a random expectation, and higher values indicate improved performance. Incorporating core microbiome features did not significantly improve the c-statistic over the host covariates.
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