Comparison of machine learning algorithms applied to symptoms to determine infectious causes of death in children: national survey of 18,000 verbal autopsies in the Million Death Study in India

Table 3 Performance matrix of SVM models for six infectious diseases

Performance Measure	Pneumonia	Diarrhoeal diseases	Malaria	Meningitis/ encephalitis	Measles	Fever of unknown origin
Accuracy	0.90	0.97	0.91	0.80	0.92	0.87
Kappa	0.80	0.93	0.81	0.60	0.84	0.74
Recall/Sensitivity	0.88	0.98	0.92	0.76	0.88	0.87
Specificity	0.92	0.95	0.90	0.85	0.97	0.87
Precision	0.91	0.95	0.90	0.83	0.97	0.87
F1 score	0.90	0.97	0.91	0.79	0.92	0.87

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