Table 1 Summary of all published models of scheduled appointment attendance in healthcare—ranked by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve in order of performance—for which out-of-sample metrics are available

From: Predicting scheduled hospital attendance with artificial intelligence

Model

Type

Variable count

Predictive performance (AUC)

Stacking17

Non-linear

18

0.846

XGBoost5

Non-linear

42

0.834

Neural network6

Non-linear

Not available

0.81

Logistic regression16

Linear

38

0.75

Logistic regression7

Linear

49

0.713

Logistic regression17

Linear

14

0.706

Sums of exponentials for regression8

Linear

17

0.706

Logistic regression9

Linear

13

0.702

  1. Note: More complex, high-dimensional models tend to exhibit greater predictive power