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Table 5 Comparison of Cox regression and RSF models in different scenarios

From: Risk factors associated with major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events following percutaneous coronary intervention: a 10-year follow-up comparing random survival forest and Cox proportional-hazards model

Included variable

Model

C index

OOB error rate

IBS*

All 13 variables

Cox

0.626

0.374

0.135

RSF

0.648

0.352

0.124

4 variables with significant unadjusted hazard ratios (diabetes, smoking, age, stent length)

Cox

0.670

0.328

0.126

6 variables with positive VIMP (diabetes, smoking, age, stent length, setting, hyperlipidemia

RSF

0.697

0.317

0.112

The same variables (diabetes, smoking, age, stent length)

Cox

0.670

0.328

0.126

RSF

0.684

0.312

0.113

  1. Bold values are the higher values of indices for comparing two models
  2. *Integrated brier score