Table 2.

Posterior prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity of both methods

			Sensitivity median (CI)		Specificity median (CI)
Model	Estimates	Prevalence median (CI)	STD	MOL	STD	MOL
A	Prior		0.16 (0.03–0.4)	0.32 (0.1–0.63)	0.98 (0.94–1)	0.95 (0.87–0.98)
	Posterior (IN)	0.69 (0.58–0.84)	0.24 (0.18–0.31)	0.68 (0.56–0.8)	0.99 (0.95–1)	0.95 (0.86–0.99)
	Posterior (DE)	0.88 (0.67–0.99)	0.2 (0.15–0.27)	0.56 (0.47–0.71)	0.98 (0.94–1)	0.95 (0.86–0.99)
B	Prior		0.39 (0.09–0.75)	0.68 (0.13–0.98)	0.87 (0.7–0.97)	0.76 (0.44–0.93)
	Posterior (IN)	0.69 (0.58–0.84)	0.35 (0.23–0.66)	0.86 (0.68–0.99)	0.92 (0.87–0.97)	0.72 (0.56–0.92)
	Posterior (DE)	0.88 (0.67–0.99)	0.25 (0.12–0.61)	0.7 (0.38–0.98)	0.87 (0.76–0.96)	0.66 (0.46–0.91)

STD, standard blood culture methods; MOL, molecular methods; CI, credible intervals (2.5–97.5%); IN, conditional independence assumption; DE, conditional dependence assumption