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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2014 Apr 2;25(1):58–64. doi: 10.1038/jes.2014.18

Table 4.

Sensitivity and specificity for predicting participants with a weekly personal magnetic field exposure metric exceeding or not exceeding thresholds (mG) using a single daily personal magnetic field exposure metric surrogate (wear time data only)

Metric Threshold1 Sensitivity2,3 Specificity2,3
TWA ≥0.8 0.76 0.75
≥1.3 0.69 0.92
≥1.9 0.51 0.95
Median ≥0.5 0.80 0.81
≥0.9 0.83 0.92
≥1.5 0.58 0.94
90th%tile ≥1.6 0.68 0.73
≥2.5 0.64 0.88
≥3.9 0.62 0.95
95th%tile ≥2.3 0.67 0.75
≥3.4 0.57 0.85
≥5.1 0.43 0.94
99th%tile ≥4.4 0.62 0.72
≥6.8 0.41 0.82
≥11.3 0.26 0.92
Maximum ≥10.1 0.54 0.83
≥16.04 0.36 0.88
≥37.4 0.20 0.95

TWA, time-weighted average;

1

thresholds defined as the 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles of the daily personal magnetic field exposure metrics;

2

each daily personal magnetic field exposure metric surrogate was not included in the calculation of the weekly personal magnetic field exposure metric;

3

677 sampling days from 100 women;

4

reported by Li et al. (2002) as the threshold above which there is an increased risk of miscarriage, 16.0 mG is about the 70th percentile of the daily personal magnetic field exposure maximums.