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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2011 Jul;22(4):589–597. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182117c85

Table 2.

Results of maximum likelihood analysis of main / internal validation study data on 924 women (nm = 624; nv = 300) at their 4th study visit: Estimates of primary model parameters

Assuming differential misclassificationa
Variable β^ (std. error) Estimated OR (95% CI)
Race/Ethnicity (Black vs. White/Hispanic) 1.13 (0.22) 3.10 (2.01 – 4.77)
Risk Group (IDU vs. sex) 0.62 (0.24) 1.86 (1.17 – 2.95)
HIV Status (positive vs negative) 0.20 (0.25) 1.22 (0.75 – 1.98)
Age (years) −0.07 (0.02) 0.94 (0.90 – 0.97)
Assuming non-differential misclassificationb
Variable β^ (std. error) Estimated OR (95% CI)
Race/Ethnicity (Black vs. White/Hispanic) 1.16 (0.22) 3.18 (2.07 – 4.86)
Risk Group (IDU vs. sex) 0.98 (0.21) 2.67 (1.76 – 4.04)
HIV Status (positive vs negative) −0.10 (0.22) 0.90 (0.59 – 1.38)
Age (years) −0.08 (0.02) 0.93 (0.89 – 0.96) < 0.001
a

Sensitivity and specificity assumed to vary with the binary variables HIV risk group, HIV status, and Age (> median vs. < median), via model (14)

b

No covariates affecting sensitivity and specificity; this assumption is not supported by the data (P<0.001)