arXiv
Dementia risk model outperformed other scores in UK cohort
On a measure of distinguishing future dementia cases from noncases, the model scored 0.853 versus 0.841 for the UK Biobank Dementia Risk Prediction model.On a measure of distinguishing future dementia cases from noncases, the model scored 0.853 versus 0.841 for the UK Biobank Dementia Risk Prediction model.
Preprint: cohort · 50,041 peopleAll-cause dementia
Who was studied50,041 UK Biobank participants, median 16.6 years, against the UKB-DRP risk model
What changedDementia prediction was better with ITU-DESC: average precision was 0.138 against 0.118 with UKB-DRP
The catchRandom imputation lowered the strongest comparator’s performance relative to its native missing-data handling