Table 4.

Degree of agreement in qPCR findings for all helminths tested between Smith College (SC) isolates and Natural History Museum (NHM) pools as calculated through Cohen’s kappa statistic

Species	No. of pools	Cohen’s kappa (95% CI)	P-value
N. americanus	17	0.51 (0.10–0.93)	0.02
A. lumbricoides	18	0.77 (0.48–1.00)	< 0.001
T. trichiura	22	1.00 (1.00–1.00)	< 0.001
An. ceylanicum	15	0.86 (0.59–1.00)	< 0.001
S. stercoralis	15	0.84 (0.55–1.00)	< 0.001