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. 2020 Sep 10;8:100141. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2020.100141

Table 4.

Predictive abilities of the immune signatures at birth. Mean and 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI) for AUROC, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and optimal threshold of the different models used to predict the risk of belonging to the high-risk group for each of the five dimensions.


Emotional symptoms
Conduct problems
Hyperactivity/Inattention
Peer problems
Prosocial behavior problems
Performance metrics Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI
AUROC 0.716 [0.685,0.738] 0.649 [0.632,0.667] 0.717 [0.694,0.732] 0.659 [0.625,0.677] 0.646 [0.622,0.672]
Sensitivity 0.701 [0.533,0.85] 0.612 [0.367,0.814] 0.659 [0.476,0.802] 0.589 [0.38,0.829] 0.667 [0.434,0.853]
Specificity 0.660 [0.495,0.807] 0.622 [0.416,0.861] 0.692 [0.539,0.852] 0.673 [0.422,0.853] 0.580 [0.374,0.795]
Positive Predictive Value 0.223 [0.187,0.285] 0.221 [0.193,0.327] 0.265 [0.224,0.357] 0.239 [0.198,0.319] 0.219 [0.188,0.271]
Negative Predictive Value 0.939 [0.923,0.96] 0.902 [0.885,0.928] 0.923 [0.905,0.942] 0.903 [0.886,0.934] 0.909 [0.887,0.938]
Optimal threshold 0.125 [0.079,0.179] 0.150 [0.101,0.229] 0.155 [0.107,0.231] 0.159 [0.107,0.232] 0.138 [0.085,0.2]