Table 4.
Meta-regression of the effects of methodological characteristics on diagnostic accuracy
logDOR | GP73 | AFP | ||||
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Coef. | p value | adjusted p* | Coef. | p value | adjusted p | |
prevalence | 0.68 | 0.84 | 1.00 | -1.02 | 0.79 | 0.98 |
cutoff | -0.01 | 0.82 | 0.99 | -0.03 | 0.54 | 0.86 |
assay | 0.03 | 0.99 | 1.00 | - | - | - |
consecutive | -2.49 | 0.37 | 0.72 | 0.78 | 0.45 | 0.81 |
*adjusted p-value results from permutation (20000) model in stata10