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. 2016 Jun 1;12(3):202–209. doi: 10.1089/chi.2015.0246

Table 3.

Summary of Discrimination Values of the IROC Algorithm for Predicting Overweight in Children at 5 Years

Models IOTF Overweight Criteria AUC c-statistic (95% CI)+ UK 1990 Overweight Criteria AUC c-statistic (95% CI)a
Primary analysis    
1. Clinical model 0.67 (0.62–0.72) 0.65 (0.60–0.71)
Sensitivity analysis    
2. Recalibrated model 0.70 (0.65–0.74) 0.67 (0.62–0.72)
3. Imputed model 0.79 (0.72–0.86) 0.73 (0.65–0.81)
4. Recalibrated imputed model 0.93 (0.88–0.98) 0.90 (0.84–0.96)
a

95% confidence intervals generated by bootstrapping standard errors using jackknife procedure.

IROC, Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist; IOTF, International Obesity Task Force; AUC, area under the receiver operating curve; CI, confidence interval.