Table 5.

Summary meta-analysis results following application of model (2) with and without the imputed data included

Without imputed data						With imputed data
Threshold value, x	No. studies with this threshold	Summary estimate	95% CI		Tau	No. studies with this threshold	Summary estimate	95% CI		Tau
								Lower	Upper
			Lower	Upper
Sensitivity
0.13	1	0.897	0.756	0.961	0.000	1	0.897	0.756	0.961	0.000
0.14	2	0.910	0.841	0.951	0.000	3	0.955	0.801	0.991	1.147
0.15	5	0.944	0.901	0.969	0.067	6	0.937	0.909	0.957	0.001
0.16	3	0.960	0.831	0.991	0.850	6	0.925	0.890	0.950	0.091
0.17	3	0.909	0.860	0.942	0.000	5	0.911	0.879	0.935	0.000
0.18	3	0.873	0.816	0.914	0.000	5	0.894	0.860	0.920	0.000
0.19	4	0.902	0.851	0.936	0.000	6	0.889	0.855	0.917	0.096
0.2	6	0.875	0.828	0.910	0.234	8	0.886	0.839	0.921	0.312
0.21	3	0.892	0.834	0.931	0.000	7	0.882	0.848	0.909	0.000
0.22	1	0.983	0.782	0.999	0.000	5	0.899	0.761	0.961	0.669
0.23	1	0.950	0.786	0.990	0.000	5	0.870	0.766	0.932	0.534
0.24	2	0.877	0.575	0.974	0.973	5	0.850	0.756	0.912	0.473
0.25	2	0.953	0.832	0.988	0.000	5	0.850	0.759	0.910	0.442
0.28	2	0.818	0.531	0.947	0.837	5	0.818	0.715	0.890	0.473
0.3	4	0.938	0.829	0.979	0.975	7	0.893	0.773	0.954	1.076
0.31	1	0.883	0.713	0.959	0.000	5	0.780	0.689	0.851	0.362
0.32	1	0.850	0.675	0.939	0.000	5	0.781	0.687	0.853	0.363
0.35	1	0.833	0.562	0.951	0.000	4	0.733	0.641	0.809	0.296
0.39	2	0.662	0.530	0.772	0.320	4	0.699	0.607	0.778	0.278
0.4	2	0.720	0.650	0.780	0.000	3	0.724	0.661	0.779	0.000
0.45	1	0.700	0.436	0.876	0.000	3	0.691	0.627	0.748	0.000
0.49	1	0.842	0.774	0.893	0.000	2	0.657	0.590	0.718	0.000
0.5	2	0.844	0.433	0.975	1.230	2	0.844	0.433	0.975	1.230
Specificity
0.13	1	0.651	0.570	0.724	0.000	1	0.651	0.570	0.724	0.000
0.14	2	0.671	0.597	0.736	0.000	3	0.624	0.524	0.714	0.250
0.15	5	0.562	0.366	0.740	0.795	6	0.583	0.421	0.728	0.717
0.16	3	0.803	0.499	0.943	1.026	6	0.661	0.462	0.816	0.910
0.17	3	0.765	0.463	0.925	1.042	5	0.677	0.465	0.834	0.922
0.18	3	0.856	0.436	0.979	1.503	5	0.726	0.458	0.893	1.188
0.19	4	0.708	0.653	0.758	0.000	6	0.720	0.522	0.858	0.961
0.2	6	0.818	0.597	0.931	1.245	8	0.775	0.609	0.884	1.031
0.21	3	0.750	0.672	0.815	0.000	7	0.707	0.635	0.771	0.332
0.22	1	0.692	0.409	0.880	0.000	5	0.705	0.599	0.793	0.438
0.23	1	0.769	0.478	0.924	0.000	5	0.738	0.623	0.828	0.508
0.24	2	0.863	0.764	0.925	0.000	5	0.762	0.636	0.855	0.592
0.25	2	0.848	0.764	0.907	0.000	5	0.798	0.655	0.892	0.724
0.28	2	0.945	0.863	0.979	0.000	5	0.845	0.681	0.933	0.947
0.3	4	0.917	0.703	0.981	1.515	7	0.916	0.793	0.969	1.311
0.31	1	0.923	0.609	0.989	0.000	5	0.886	0.707	0.962	1.183
0.32	1	0.923	0.609	0.989	0.000	5	0.892	0.716	0.964	1.194
0.35	1	0.948	0.876	0.979	0.000	4	0.898	0.701	0.971	1.239
0.39	2	0.980	0.092	1.000	3.125	4	0.933	0.713	0.987	1.556
0.4	2	0.903	0.675	0.977	0.982	3	0.872	0.715	0.949	0.796
0.45	1	0.994	0.915	1.000	0.000	3	0.944	0.587	0.995	1.883
0.49	1	0.842	0.774	0.893	0.000	2	0.838	0.779	0.883	0.000
0.5	2	0.863	0.764	0.925	0.000	2	0.863	0.764	0.925	0.000

NB All meta-analyses used model (2), as model (1) often poorly estimated ρ _10t at +1 or -1.