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. 2017 Dec 21;12(12):e0189997. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189997

Table 1. HfCHL test properties.

  Scenario 1
(Disease group = All IOD)
Scenario 2
(Disease group = Type 2 IOD)
Cutoff value for HfCHL test 10 dB 10 dB
Sensitivity 83% 89%
Specificity 92% 80%
Pre-test probability 25% 11%
Post-test probability 78% 35%
Likelihood ratio 10.2 4.5
AUC (SE) 0.901 (0.019) 0.865 (0.026)

IOD: Incomplete Ossicular Discontinuity; HfCHL: High-frequency Conductive Hearing Loss; AUC: Area Under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) Curve; SE: Standard Error.