CatBoost-estimated biological age

CatBoost-estimated biological age is associated with chronological age in silico (Pearson r = 0.798).

“Model-estimated BA strongly correlated with CA in held-out testing data (Pearson r = 0.798, P < 0.001).”

In silicoheld-out testing data

Clinically Interpretable Biological Age Estimation Using CatBoost and SHAP with Continuous and Categorical Features from NHANES

arXiv·14 Oct 2026Preprint