Global and local feature (predictor variable) explanations from the XGBoost trained with Quebec data (2014–2021).

<p>Left: bar chart showing the global importance of each feature, measured as the mean absolute SHAP value across all observations. Higher values indicate greater overall influence on the model’s predictions. Right: The local explanation summary plot indicates how each feature observation cont...

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Main Author: Hamid Ghanbari (6821096) (author)
Other Authors: Kevin Siebels (22004341) (author), Ariane Dumas (12368759) (author), Emily S. Acheson (5943710) (author), Catherine Bouchard (5675591) (author), Kirsten Crandall (22290884) (author), Patrick A. Leighton (11230127) (author), Nicholas H. Ogden (9367942) (author), Erin E. Rees (3293091) (author)
Published: 2025
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Summary:<p>Left: bar chart showing the global importance of each feature, measured as the mean absolute SHAP value across all observations. Higher values indicate greater overall influence on the model’s predictions. Right: The local explanation summary plot indicates how each feature observation contributes to the model’s predictions. Each dot represents a site, with colour indicating the feature value (red = high, blue = low). Dot position along the x-axis is the SHAP value, showing how much that feature shifts the model’s prediction from the baseline on a log-odds scale, with positive values increasing the prediction and negative values decreasing the prediction. The baseline prediction (the model’s average output) was a log-odds of approximately −0.212, corresponding to a probability of about 0.44. For a single feature, predicted log-odds for a site is calculated by adding that feature’s SHAP value to the baseline. For example, a high DD > 0°C value contributing a SHAP value of +2.2 would increase the predicted probability from the baseline of 0.44 to 0.88 as follows: log-odds = Baseline + SHAP_DD > 0 = −0.212 + 2.2 = 1.988 and the final probability, p, would be p = 1/ (1 + e^(−1.988)) ≈ 0.88.</p>