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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2014 Feb 7;54:51–62. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.016

Table 2.

Diagnosis accuracy according to the number of scores.

1 score 2 scores 3 scores 4 scores 5 scores 6 scores 7 scores 8 scores 19 scores

AUC (95% CI) .632 (.597–.666) .684 (.652–.717) .709 (.677–.742) .726 (.694–.757) .741 (.711–.772) .756 (.726–.786) .759 (.729–.789) .771* (.741–.799) .772 (.743–.8)

Impaired scores ≥ TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR TPR FPR

0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
1 29.9 3.6 42.7 6.8 50.3 10.5 54.4 12.3 59.9 16.3 63.8 18.9 64.6 19.6 68.1 21.5 75 35
2 .0 .0 14.8 .3 21.9 .6 30.4 1.7 34.1 2.1 40.6 2.8 42.3 3.2 45.8 4.7 59 14
3 .0 .0 6.1 .0 14.1 .3 18.2 .3 24.3 .7 26.5 .7 27.8 1.2 46 6.1
4 .0 .0 4.1 .0 7.6 .0 12.6 .1 14.1 .3 15.4 .3 38.2 2.35

Sensitivity 29.9 14.8 21.9 30.4 34.1 40.6 42.3 45.8 38.2
Specificity 96.4 99.7 99.4 98.3 97.9 97.2 96.8 95.3 97
Accuracy 73.9 66.6 66.6 68.3 66.9 67.3 67.5 67.4 74.6
Positive PV 81.0 96.5 95.3 90.4 89.4 88.3 87.2 83.3 86.7
Negative PV 72.9 69.5 71.3 73.4 74.3 76.1 76.6 77.4 75.4

AUC: Area Under Curve; CI: confidence interval; TPR: True positive rate; FPR: false-positive rate; PV: predictive value. Underlined bold rates: False-positive rate ≤5% and corresponding true positive rate;

a

the AUC for the 8-score set was higher than those obtained with 7 scores or less (p≤.01 for all comparisons in an extended McNemar test).