Fig. 7

Partial Dependence Plots of ADA, Age and LDH on pleural effusion etiologies prediction based on Extreme Gradient Boosting model. Each line depicts the single-variable effects on the prediction outcome. MPE, malignant pleural effusion, TPE, tuberculous pleural effusion, PPE, parapneumonic pleural effusion. ADA, Adenosine deaminase; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase