Age-related determinants of geriatric depression: an analysis of theory-driven and data-driven approaches.

BMC Health Serv Res · 2026 · PMC13356798 · PMID 42174586

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marginally significantp = 0.060so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Activity status was found to be marginally significant (OR = 0.549, p = 0.060).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Importantly, the ML models identified predictive contributions from variables that did not reach statistical significance in LR—most notably Katz ADL and activity status in the 85 + group—demonstrating that the combined approach is not merely confirmatory but genuinely additive.

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