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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2008 Aug;65(8):1091–1095. doi: 10.1001/archneur.65.8.1091

Table 2.

Ranges and κ Values for CDR Sum of Boxes Scores by Global CDR Score Stage

Global CDR Score
0 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0
CDR Sum of Boxes
 Range 0 0.5–4.0 4.5–9.0 9.5–15.5 16.0–18.0
 AUC NA 0.99 0.97 0.99 0.97
κ Valuea 0.94 0.94 0.90 0.86 0.88
Correctly classified, %b 100.0 95.1 89.6 91.5 100.0

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (all were significant at P<.001); CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating; NA, not applicable.

a

Overall κ=0.90.

b

Correctly classified reflects the percentage of participants in the derived Sum of Boxes ranges who were in the appropriate global score range.