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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Econ. 2015 Jan;47(5):431–448. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2014.972546

Table 5.

Impact of the Selected Threshold on the Accuracy of Measure

Measure Performance Measure Probit Model Logit Model Log-log Model Complementary Loglog Model
Cotinine threshold of 3 ng/mL Sensitivity 0.9307*** 0.9335*** 0.9042*** 0.9678*
(0.0186) (0.0190) (0.0220) (0.0167)
Specificity 0.9805*** 0.9883 0.9969 0.9689***
(0.0071) (0.0072) (0.0072) (0.0070)
Cotinine threshold of 8 ng/mL Sensitivity 0.9200*** 0.9221*** 0.8951*** 0.9584*
(0.0237) (0.0248) (0.0292) (0.0225)
Specificity 0.9826** 0.9903 0.9986 0.9711***
(0.0082) (0.0082) (0.0077) (0.0088)
Cotinine threshold of 15 ng/mL Sensitivity 0.8967*** 0.8983*** 0.8728*** 0.9348***
(0.0216) (0.0221) (0.0239) (0.0218)
Specificity 0.9844** 0.9916 0.9995 0.9734***
(0.0065) (0.0064) (0.0059) (0.0074)
Self-reported data Sensitivity 0.9147*** 0.9168*** 0.8909*** 0.9525**
(0.0226) (0.0237) (0.0278) (0.0219)
Specificity 0.9813** 0.9890 0.9973 0.9704***
(0.0086) (0.0086) (0.0083) (0.0091)

Note:

***

p < 0.01;

**

p < 0.05;

*

p < 0.10.