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. 2016 Feb 12;46:1953–1961. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2718-4

Table 3.

Performance of the MARA across different ages and cognitive/developmental levels

# Subjects # Subjects with clinical ASD diagnosisa Sensitivity
[95 % CI] (%)
Specificity
[95 % CI] (%)
Total sample 222 69 89.9 [82.7–97] 79.7 [73.4–86.1]
Age <3 years 38 25 96 [88.3–100] 61.5 [35.1–88]
Age 3–6 years 103 33 84.8 [72.6–97.1] 75.7 [65.7–85.8]
Age >6 years 81 11 90.9 [73.9–100] 87.1 [79.3–95]
Cognitive/development scorea <70 15 7 100 [100–100] 62.5 [29–96]
Cognitive/development scorea 70–84 24 14 78.6 [57.1–100] 50 [19–81]
Cognitive/development scorea 85–100 46 19 100 [100–100] 70.4 [53.1–87.6]
Cognitive/development scorea >100 32 12 75 [50.5–99.5] 80 [62.5–97.5]

aCognitive/development score is based on non-verbal IQ for whom N = 117 subjects had available data

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