Table 7.

Area under the curve (AUC) of each discrimination index for differential βTT (n = 537) from IDA (n = 370) in patients with microcytic anemia with their 95% confidence interval (SE: Standard Error, CI: Confidence Interval).

Discriminant Formula	AUC	SE	95% CI	p–value
England and Fraser (E&F)	0.742	0.0139	0.714–0.769	<0.001
RBC	0.747	0.0146	0.718–0.775	<0.001
Mentzer	0.838	0.0126	0.814–0.863	<0.001
Srivastava	0.778	0.0139	0.751–0.806	<0.001
Shine and Lal (S&L)	0.588	0.0099	0.568–0.607	<0.001
Bessman	0.432	0.0117	0.409–0.455	<0.001
Ricerca	0.529	0.0071	0.515–0.542	<0.001
Green and King (G&K)	0.826	0.0130	0.801–0.852	<0.001
Das Gupta	0.658	0.0133	0.632–0.684	<0.001
Jayabose (RDWI)	0.784	0.0137	0.757–0.811	<0.001
Telmissani – MCHD	0.509	0.0055	0.498–0.520	0.0970
Telmissani – MDHL	0.711	0.0141	0.683–0.738	<0.001
Huber – Herklotz	0.542	0.0128	0.517–0.567	0.001
Kerman I	0.782	0.0136	0.755–0.808	<0.001
Kerman II	0.854	0.0121	0.830–0.878	<0.001
Sirdah	0.845	0.0119	0.821–0.868	<0.001
Ehsani	0.852	0.0122	0.828–0.876	<0.001
Keikhaei	0.807	0.0135	0.780–0.833	<0.001
Nishad	0.812	0.0134	0.785–0.838	<0.001
Wongprachum	0.787	0.0139	0.759–0.814	<0.001
Sehgal	0.803	0.0131	0.778–0.829	<0.001
Pornprasert	0.282	0.018	0.247–0.317	<0.001
Sirachainan	0.554	0.0153	0.524–0.584	0.0004
Bordbar	0.763	0.0134	0.737–0.789	<0.001
Matos and Carvalho	0.790	0.0138	0.763–0.817	<0.001
Janel (11T)	0.843	0.0119	0.819–0.866	<0.001
CRUISE	0.747	0.0148	0.718–0.776	<0.001
Index26	0.858	0.0111	0.836–0.879	<0.001