Table 5 Parameter setting of the second layer model.

From: Emerging infectious disease surveillance using a hierarchical diagnosis model and the Knox algorithm

Model

Parameters

Explanations

Range

Step length

LightGBM

n_estimators = 150

The maximum number of iterations

100–200

20

max depth = 8

Maximum depth of tree

5–15

1

num leaves = 50

Number of leaves of the tree

10–100

10

learning rate = 0.1

Learning rate

[0.01,0.1,1]

 

XGBoost

n_estimators = 180,

The maximum number of iterations

100–200

20

max depth = 6

Maximum depth of tree

5–15

1

colsample bytree = 0.6

Proportion of features used by each tree to all features

0.5–0.8

0.1

learning rate = 0.1

Learning rate

[0.01,0.1,1]

 

Random Forest

n_estimators = 120

The maximum number of iterations

100–200

20

max depth = 13,

Maximum depth of tree

5–20

1

min_samples_leaf = 5

Minimum number of samples required at leaf node

1–15

2

max features = 0.7

Number of features in the selected feature subset

0.5–0.8

0.1