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Table 4 Comparing selected prognostic models to the developed models in the complete dataset

From: A simple pooling method for variable selection in multiply imputed datasets outperformed complex methods

First 10 unique models

D1(n)

D1(%)

D2(n)

D2(%)

D3(n)

D3(%)

MPR(n)

MPR(%)

Comp (n)

M1a

  M1a

425

88.0

402

83.2

410

84.9

441

91.3#

483

  M1b

329

73.4

276

61.6

310

69.2

359

80.1#

448

  M1c

178

49.7

146

40.8

194

54.2

270

75.4#

358

  M1d

110

38.1

107

37.0

111

38.4

205

70.9#

289

M2b

  M2a

361

80.8

336

75.2

358

80.1

391

87.5#

447

  M2b

253

67.3

231

61.4

250

66.5

280

74.5#

376

  M2c

105

43.9

107

44.8

108

45.2

169

70.7#

239

  M2d

93

52.8

94

53.4

93

52.8

109

61.9#

176

M3c

  M3a

491

98.2

489

97.8

491

98.2

492

98.4#

500

  M3b

472

94.4

472

94.4

474

94.8

475

95.0#

500

  M3c

452

90.4

445

89.0

455

91.0

456

91.2#

500

  M3d

434

86.8

412

83.4

432

87.4

441

89.3#

494

M4d

  M4a

481

96.2

481

96.2

481

96.2

483

96.6#

500

  M4b

439

88.5

465

93.8

469

94.6

470

94.8#

496

  M4c

401

83.5

380

79.2

401

83.5

416

86.7#

480

  M4d

93

52.8

94

53.4

77

43.8

112

63.6#

176

  1. aM1 = model with n = 200. correlation degree 0.2; a = p-out ≤ 0.5; b = p-out ≤ 0.3; c = p-out ≤ 0.1; d = p-out t ≤ h0.05
  2. bM2 = model with n = 200. correlation degree 0.6; a = p-out ≤ 0.5; b = p-out ≤ 0.3; c = p-out ≤ 0.1; d = p-out ≤ 0.05
  3. cM3 = model with n = 500. correlation degree 0.2; a = p-out ≤ 0.5; b = p-out ≤ 0.3; c = p-out ≤ 0.1; d = p-out ≤ 0.05
  4. dM4 = model with n = 500. correlation degree 0.6; a = p-out ≤ 0.5; b = p-out ≤ 0.3; c = p-out ≤ 0.1; d = p-out ≤ 0.05
  5. n Number of observations, P-out P-value for excluding variable out of the model, D1 (n) Number of developed similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the D1-method, D1(%) Percentage of similar models as in the complete dataset with the D1-method, D2 (n) Number of developed similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the D2-method, D2(%) Percentage of similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the D2-method, D3 (n) Number of developed similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the D3-method, D3(%) Percentage of similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the D3-method, MPR (n) Number of developed similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the MPR-method, MPR (%) Percentage of similar prognostic models as in the complete dataset with the MPR-method, comp (n) Number of the first ten unique models selected in the BWS-procedure; # = highest amount of similar unique prognostic models compared to the models from the complete dataset