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Published in final edited form as: Biostatistics. 2007 Jun 12;9(1):137–151. doi: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm018

Table 5.

Uganda HHV-8 Study: Estimation of parameters in “logistic p ” and logistic regression based on fixed cutoff values for the assays; model-based standard errors given in parentheses

Parameter Bivariate mixture model
Standard logistic regression Infected defined based on fixed cutoff values for
Model I
Model II
K = 0 K = 1 K = 2 K = 1 K = 2 K8.1 orf73 Combined
Intercept −1.65 −1.73 −2.05 −1.65 −1.68 0.01 −0.35 0.15
(0.28) (0.29) (0.39) (0.25) (0.24) (0.23) (0.23) (0.21)
5 ≤ age < 10 1.56 1.55 1.72 1.32 1.35 0.94 1.49 1.17
(0.28) (0.28) (0.33) (0.24) (0.24) (0.30) (0.32) (0.26)
Age ≥ 10 1.63 1.63 1.94 1.39 1.40 1.75 1.36 1.46
(0.29) (0.29) (0.35) (0.25) (0.25) (0.30) (0.32) (0.27)
Ever transfused 0.31 0.30 0.50 0.32 0.32 0.31 0.30 0.21
(0.23) (0.22) (0.25) (0.19) (0.19) (0.22) (0.22) (0.20)
Surface water 0.80 0.79 1.09 0.63 0.69 0.55 0.93 0.81
(0.24) (0.23) (0.27) (0.20) (0.20) (0.22) (0.22) (0.20)
Log-likelihood −142.61 −136.67 −117.66 −231.32 −181.46 −271.00 −267.49 −310.21
AIC −319.22 −315.34 −289.32 −500.64 −412.92 −372.92 −552.00 −544.98