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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Psychol. 2009 Feb;118(1):161–170. doi: 10.1037/a0014741

Table 4. Screening Properties for CTA Risk Factor Combinations.

Risk factor combination /
Logical operator rule
Sens-
itivity
Spec-
ificity
PPV NPV Positive
screen
Overall
accuracy
Depressive symptoms
and/or poor school
functioning
 “And” rule .53 .85 .35 .93 .20 .81
 “Or” rule .79 .58 .22 .95 .47 .61
Depressive symptoms
and/or low parental support
 “And” rule .42 .91 .30 .86 .18 .80
 “Or” rule .87 .55 .22 .97 .51 .59
Poor school functioning
and/or low parental support
 “And” rule .37 .85 .26 .90 .18 .78
 “Or” rule .89 .52 .22 .97 .53 .57
Depressive symptoms
and/or poor school
functioning and/or
low parental support
 “And” rule .32 .90 .33 .90 .13 .84
 “Or” rule .94 .45 .20 .98 .60 .51

Note. CTA = Classification Tree Analysis; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value; Positive screen = proportion of sample screened positive; Overall accuracy = proportion of sample correctly classified. The “and” rule specifies that all of the risk factors in the combination are present to screen positive; the “or” rule specifies that any of the risk factors in the combination are present to screen positive.