Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2012 Dec;19(12):1529–1536. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.09.007

Table 2.

Summary statistics of the terminal nodes, decision groups and combinations in the final tree

Node h Node information Sample size nh =(nh0, nh1) Preference score ± SE AUCs (θ̂ = (θ̂1, θ̂2) AUC difference Δ θ̂ ± SE st
QUS preferred subgroup (node 1) (220, 34) 0.286 ± 0.006 (0.637, 0.726) −0.089 ± 0.057 −2.037
1 Weight<54.5 (220, 34) 0.286 ±0.006 (0.637, 0.726) −0.089 ± 0.057 −2.037

No preference subgroup (nodes 2~3 combined) (469, 92) 0.500 ± 0.003 (0.624, 0.639) −0.015 ± 0.030 −1.484
2 54.5≤Weight<58.5 (183, 54) 0.456 ± 0.007 (0.656, 0.678) −0.022 ± 0.042 −1.195
3 Weight≥58.5, Height≥167.5 (286, 38) 0.532 ± 0.005 (0.595, 0.603) −0.008 ± 0.043 −0.924

DXA preferred subgroup (node 4) (1262, 245) 0.748 ±0.002 (0.664, 0.600) 0.064 ± 0.021 1.699
4 Weight≥58.5, Height<167.5 (1262, 245) 0.748 ± 0.002 (0.664, 0.600) 0.064 ± 0.021 1.699

Total (nodes 1~4 combined) (1951, 371) 0.484 ±0.004 (0.653, 0.623) 0.030 ± 0.016 0.013

When 2 or more nodes are combined, the weighted AUC or preference score are reported in the table.

SE=Standard Error.