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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Addict. 2008;17(6):491–496. doi: 10.1080/10550490802409082

Table 3.

Kappa coefficients, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of cutoff scores on the mFTQ used assess full cigarette smoking. The cutoff at ≥3 is bolded to indicate the greatest kappa value for concordance.

mFTQ Cutoff Score Kappa Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV
≥1 0.58 92% 84% 52% 98%
≥2 0.60 88% 86% 55% 98%
3 0.68 81% 93% 68% 96%
≥4 0.63 58% 98% 83% 92%
≥5 0.61 50% 99% 93% 91%
≥6 0.43 31% 100% 100% 88%
≥7 0.23 15% 100% 100% 86%