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Table 2 Comparison of different random forest model predictions at three bacterial taxonomic levels

From: Identifying predictive features of Clostridium difficile infection recurrence before, during, and after primary antibiotic treatment

Study

Sequence length

Error rate

AUC

p value

Most important variable

C-OTU level

250

0.35

0.61

0.026

Veillonella dispar

C-Genus level

250

0.37

0.57

> 0.05

Veillonella

C-Family level

250

0.38

0.53

> 0.05

Veillonellaceae

C-OTU level

200

0.40

0.55

> 0.05

Bacteroides uniformis

C-Genus level

200

0.40

0.40

> 0.05

Veillonella

C-Family level

200

0.42

0.45

> 0.05

Veillonellaceae

K-OTU level

200

0.30

0.51

> 0.05

Phascolarctobacterium sp.

K-Genus level

200

0.34

0.46

> 0.05

Phascolarctobacterium

K-Family level

200

0.35

0.51

> 0.05

Veillonellaceae

  1. C current study dataset, K Khanna et al.’s [22] dataset, AUC area under the ROC curve