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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Commun Stat Simul Comput. 2012 Dec 12;42(6):1213–1234. doi: 10.1080/03610918.2012.661906

Table 6.

VUS and Youden point estimate under the normal method, followed by 95% confidence interval and associated optimal cutoff on 14 psychometric markers on Alzheimer’s disease.

marker ID VUS Youden index

estimate (95% CI) t* t+* estimate (95% CI) t* t+*

FACTOR1 0.73 (0.62,0.83) −0.06 3.17 0.63 (0.49,0.72) 0.56 2.91
ktemp 0.75 (0.65,0.85) −2.04 3.45 0.62 (0.5,0.72) −1.51 3.45
kpar 0.55 (0.43,0.68) −1.45 1.87 0.43 (0.33,0.55) −0.54 1.60
kfront 0.66 (0.55,0.76) −1.68 0.91 0.49 (0.43,0.6) −1.43 1.10
zpsy004 0.72 (0.63,0.82) −0.18 1.81 0.57 (0.52,0.72) 0.08 1.26
zpsy005 0.52 (0.41,0.63) −1.23 1.21 0.37 (0.28,0.49) −0.13 0.87
zpsy006 0.60 (0.48,0.71) −0.28 2.02 0.46 (0.35,0.58) −0.10 1.30
zinfo 0.68 (0.58,0.78) −0.37 1.93 0.51 (0.42,0.65) 0.07 1.50
zbentc 0.59 (0.47,0.7) −0.42 1.56 0.45 (0.36,0.57) 0.14 1.01
zbentd 0.35 (0.24,0.46) −0.50 1.50 0.28 (0.23,0.43) 0.67 1.55
zboston 0.57 (0.46,0.69) −0.54 1.94 0.50 (0.42,0.61) 0.17 1.92
zmentcon 0.53 (0.42,0.64) −0.09 1.32 0.42 (0.35,0.52) 0.24 1.00
zworflu 0.57 (0.46,0.68) −0.37 1.33 0.41 (0.33,0.55) −0.37 0.83
zassc 0.63 (0.52,0.74) 0.03 1.37 0.50 (0.37,0.6) −0.07 1.06