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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2005 Sep;73(3):593–598.

Table 1.

Median and 95% confidence intervals around the median (in parentheses) of scaled differences between counts by microscopists A and B categorized by total number of white blood cells (WBCs) counted

Peru
Thailand
1998 1999 1998 1999
Both counted 200 0.19 0.18 0.17 0.12
WBC (total = 400) (0.17, 0.21) (0.15, 0.22) (0.15, 0.19) (0.11, 0.14)
One counted 200 0.46 0.71 0.73 0.83
One counted 500 (total = 700) (0.29, 0.81) (0.29, 1.25) (0.45, 0.97) (0.72, 0.98)
Both counted 500 0.34 0.20 0.33 0.29
WBCs (total = 1,000) (0.13, 0.67) (0.03, 0.5) (0.24, 0.40) 0.20, 0.38)