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. 2024 Apr 19;35(7):886–900. doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000350

Table 3.

Discrimination performance of multivariable models to discriminate rejection and rejection phenotypes from the estimated cell composition

Metric Adjustment Rejection versus No Rejection Discrimination Rejection Phenotypes Discrimination
Multivariable Logistic Regression
Metric: AUC
Multivariable Logistic Regression+MFP Metric: AUC Polytomous LR Including Non-Rejection Cases Metric: PDIa Polytomous LR Excluding Non-Rejection Cases Metric: PDIb
Apparent performance (95% CI) 0.85 (0.82 to 0.89) 0.86 (0.82 to 0.89) 0.58 (0.53 to 0.63) 0.72 (0.64 to 0.80)
Corrected performance (95% CI) 0.84 (0.81 to 0.88) 0.83 (0.79 to 0.86) 0.52 (0.48 to 0.57) 0.63 (0.55 to 0.71)
Corrected pairwise AUCs (95% CI)
No rejection versus DSA-positive AMR 0.79 (0.74 to 0.84)
No rejection versus TCMR 0.90 (0.85 to 0.95)
No rejection versus DSA-positive mixed rejection 0.91 (0.86 to 0.96)
DSA-positive AMR versus TCMR 0.85 (0.78 to 0.92) 0.88 (0.78 to 0.91)
DSA-positive AMR versus DSA-positive mixed rejection 0.72 (0.63 to 0.81) 0.83 (0.66 to 0.84)
TCMR versus DSA-positive mixed 0.78 (0.68 to 0.88) 0.84 (0.67 to 0.88)

AMR, antibody-mediated rejection; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; CI, confidence interval; DSA, donor-specific antibodies; LR, logistic regression; MFP, multivariable fractional polynomials; PDI, Polytomous Discrimination Index; TCMR, T-cell–mediated rejection.

a

Baseline Polytomous Discrimination Index: 0.25.

b

Baseline Polytomous Discrimination Index: 0.33.