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Table 2 The distribution of area (continent) and economic status in 130 countries, in training and validation sets

From: Predicting the demand of physician workforce: an international model based on "crowd behaviors"

 

Training Set

(N = 65)

Validation Set

(N = 65)

Entire Set

(N = 130)

Continent

   

   Africa

26 (40.0)

18 (27.7)

44 (33·8)

   Americas

3 (4.6)

1 (1.5)

4 (3.2)

   Asia

7 (10.8)

5 (7.7)

12 (9.2)

   Australia/Oceania

2 (3.1)

5 (7.7)

7 (5.4)

   Europe

20 (30.7)

24 (36.9)

44 (33.8)

   Middle East

7 (10.8)

12 (18.5)

19 (14.6)

Member of OECD

   

   No

50 (76.9)

50 (76.9)

100 (76.9)

   Yes

15 (23.1)

15 (23.1)

30 (23.1)

Economics

   

   Low income

17 (26.1)

20 (30.8)

37 (28.4)

   Middle income

28 (43.1)

25 (38.4)

53 (40.8)

   High income

20 (30.8)

20 (30.8)

40 (30.8)

  1. OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development