Table 2 Performance of different M3 regression models predicting immediate wellbeing outcomes (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001)

From: Life events as predictors of wellbeing outcomes

Dep. Var →

 

P. Affect

  

N. Affect

  

Stress

  

Anxiety

  

Sleep

 

Model

R2

SMAPE

r

R2

SMAPE

r

R2

SMAPE

r

R2

SMAPE

r

R2

SMAPE

r

Lasso (L1-Regularization)

0.49***

25.94

0.27***

0.58***

27.36

0.48***

0.42***

32.23

0.39***

0.43***

37.62

0.31***

0.39***

23.71

−0.07

Ridge (L2-Regularization)

0.78***

18.43

0.50***

0.77***

21.82

0.69***

0.59***

24.30

0.50***

0.63***

21.99

0.65***

0.64***

16.20

0.48*

Support Vector Regressor (Kernel=RBF)

0.66***

11.61

0.87***

0.81***

10.03

0.92***

0.89***

10.23

0.95***

0.87***

11.58

0.95***

0.82***

6.71

0.94***

Random Forest Regressor

−2.11

43.25

−0.15

−0.35

31.97

−0.22*

−38.60

105.02

0.04

−52.25

115.53

−0.07

0.93

4.33

0.99***

MLP Regressor

0.30***

17.30

0.67***

0.83***

13.72

0.92***

0.71***

17.30

0.86***

0.84***

12.75

0.92***

0.40***

12.90

0.75***