Published on in Vol 9, No 7 (2021): July

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26540, first published .
Predicting Depression From Smartphone Behavioral Markers Using Machine Learning Methods, Hyperparameter Optimization, and Feature Importance Analysis: Exploratory Study

Predicting Depression From Smartphone Behavioral Markers Using Machine Learning Methods, Hyperparameter Optimization, and Feature Importance Analysis: Exploratory Study

Predicting Depression From Smartphone Behavioral Markers Using Machine Learning Methods, Hyperparameter Optimization, and Feature Importance Analysis: Exploratory Study

Kennedy Opoku Asare   1 , MSc ;   Yannik Terhorst   2 , MSc ;   Julio Vega   3 , PhD ;   Ella Peltonen   1 , PhD ;   Eemil Lagerspetz   4 , PhD ;   Denzil Ferreira   1 , PhD

1 Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

2 Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

3 Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

4 Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  • Kennedy Opoku Asare, MSc
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