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. 2016 Jun 10;15:89. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0378-9

Table 3.

Logistic regression AUC and AIC values: Palmetto SADI versus four alternative small-area deprivation measures

Model At least one chronic condition Two or more chronic conditions
AUC p AIC p AUC p AIC p
Palmetto SADI 0.5741 4080.450 0.5716 2192.305
Townsend 0.5472 0.0000 4101.994 0.0000 0.5416 0.0000 2200.699 0.0000
Poverty 0.5563 0.0000 4095.502 0.0000 0.5528 0.0000 2198.326 0.0000
Primary Care HPSA 0.5440 0.0000 4095.045 0.0000 0.5419 0.0000 2197.537 0.0000
MUA/MUP 0.5389 0.0000 4101.473 0.0000 0.5299 0.0000 2202.166 0.0000

The table shows omnibus statistics for single predictor logistic regression models of two chronic disease burden outcome indicators representing a random sample of 5,000 South Carolina Medicaid recipients (FY2012). Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUC) values close to 1 show near perfect discrimination. Corrected Akaike information criterion measure (AIC) values indicate the model’s deviance from a perfectly predicting model. Lower values of AIC indicate a preferable model. Tabled p values reflect the probability that AUC and AIC values associated with each of the four alternative deprivation models do not differ statistically from the Palmetto SADI model