Table 2.

Agreement statistics for log₁₀ parasitemia/mL by microscopy and 18S qPCR

	Microscopy versus 18S qPCR
n	355
ICC (95% CI)	0.965 (0.956–0.971)
Paired t test (95% CI)
Mean difference (95% CI)	0.04 (− 0.01–0.10)
p value	0.088
Passing–Bablok regression
Intercept (95% CI)	0.06 (− 0.18–0.28)
Slope (95% CI)	1.01 (0.97–1.04)
H statistic	1.50

CI confidence interval, ICC intraclass correlation coefficient