Table 8.
K-fold Validation of forest type change models.

MODEL Overall Accuracy Kappa Coeff. Difference in Rate of Change (Estimated-Observed)
LR RF SVM LR RF SVM LR RF SVM
CON_model 0.630 0.559 0.673 0.260 0.119 0.345 −0.226 −0.349 −0.006
DEC_model 0.628 0.517 0.710 0.256 0.034 0.419 −0.151 −0.475 0.098
MIX_model 0.366 0.336 0.456 0.050 0.004 0.184 0.476* −0.332* 0.069*
−0.333** −0.301** 0.087**
Change from MIX to CON
Change from MIX to DEC