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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Mar 27;26(1):13–21. doi: 10.3171/2020.1.PEDS19496

TABLE 3.

Binary logistic regression to predict the effect of variables on treatment efficacy, need for subsequent surgery, and need for adjuvant therapy

OR 95% Wald Confidence Limits p Value
Effect on treatment efficacy (decreased vs stable or increased tumor size)
 Location (cerebellar vs deep) 0.52 0.04 6.12 0.6076
 Location (lobar vs deep) 2.33 0.54 10.07 0.2542
 Tumor type (high vs low grade) 7.49 1.13 49.45 0.0364
 Tumor vol 1.06 0.98 1.14 0.1178
 No. of trajectories 1.34 0.23 7.74 0.7386
 No. of lesions 0.89 0.57 1.38 0.6185
 Lesion vol 0.98 0.89 1.08 0.7344
Effect of variables on subsequent surgery
 Location (cerebellar vs deep) 1.48 0.12 17.22 0.7532
 Location (lobar vs deep) 1.47 0.24 8.73 0.6720
 Tumor type (high vs low grade) 2.25 0.21 23.32 0.4957
 Tumor vol 1.02 0.98 1.06 0.3262
Effect of variables on adjuvant treatment
 Tumor type (high vs low grade) 3.77 0.56 25.28 0.1711
 Tumor vol 1.05 0.99 1.11 0.0632

Boldface type indicates statistical significance.