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. 2015 Mar 5;10(3):e0116403. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116403

Table 1. Definitions outcome measurements.

Definition bias Formula Ref.
Median difference md eGFR-mGFR [67,120]
Median percentage difference* md ((eGFR-mGFR)/mGFR) x 100% [120]
Mean difference 1/n x Σ (eGFR-mGFR) [135]
Mean percentage difference 1/n x Σ ((eGFR-mGFR)/mGFR) x 100% [142]
Precision Formula Ref.
Inter quartile range (IQR) difference IQR of (eGFR—mGFR) [67]
IQR percentage difference* IQR of ((eGFR-mGFR)/mGFR) x 100% [67]
Limits of agreement (LOA) Mean difference ± 1.96 SD [135,136]
Standard deviation difference (SD) σ of all the individual differences [67,135]
Accuracy Formula Ref.
Pk § Percentage of estimates within k% of mGFR [67]
Median absolute percentage error (mAPE) md ((|eGFR—mGFR|)/mGFR) x 100% [142]
Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) 1/n x Σ ((|eGFR—mGFR|)/mGFR) x 100% [142]

* Preferred definition because a relative scale provides a more relevant metric.

In some articles the mean percentage difference was called the mean percentage error (MPE).

§ Preferred definition of accuracy. We limited our search to P10, P20, P30 and P50.