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To achieve this objective, (1) this study explored the predictors of senile anxiety using base models and meta models. (2) This study presented decision tree visualization that could help psychiatric consultants and primary physicians easily interpret the path of predicting high-risk groups based on major predictors derived from final machine learning models with the best performance. This study analyzed 1558 elderly (695 males and 863 females) who were 60 years or older and completed the Zung\u2019s Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). We used support vector machine (SVM), random forest, LightGBM, and Adaboost for the base model, a single predictive model, while using XGBoost algorithm for the meta model. The analysis results confirmed that the predictive performance of the \u201cSVM + Random forest + LightGBM + AdaBoost + XGBoost model (stacking ensemble: accuracy 87.4%, precision 85.1%, recall 87.4%, and F1-score 85.5%)\u201d was the best. 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