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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2017 May 22;220(6):990–997. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.05.008

Table 4.

Results of final analyses using untransformed data.

Univariate logistic regression analysis
Complaint WQ Unit Δ (mg/L) OR (CI95% ) p-value R2
Salty taste TDS 100 1.89 (1.55, 2.31) <0.001 0.17
Scent Iron 1.00 2.89 (1.99, 4.19) <0.001 0.12
Oily sheen Iron 1.00 15.0 (7.05, 32.1) <0.001 0.32
Food staining Iron 1.00 5.19 (3.23, 8.35) <0.001 0.22

Youden index threshold analysis
Complaint WQ Cutoff (mg/L) OR (CI95% ) Sens/Spec AUC

Salty taste TDS 172 10.1 (5.60, 18.1) 0.72/0.79 0.80
Scent Iron 0.11 10.4 (5.76, 18.7) 0.78/0.75 0.78
Oily sheen Iron 0.14 22.7 (12.1, 42.6) 0.82/0.84 0.87
Food staining Iron 0.43 21.8 (11.2, 42.6) 0.67/0.92 0.82