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Table 1 Criteria for statistical interpretation

From: An examination of factors influencing the choice of therapy for patients with coronary artery disease

 

Statistic

 

Interpretation

Strength of association

ω2

≈ 0.01

small association

  

≈ 0.06

medium association

  

≈ 0.14

large association

 

φc

< 0.3

little or no association

  

0.3 to 0.7

weak association

  

0.7 to 1.0

strong association

Regression model evaluation

deviance statistic

-

significance of unexplained (residual) variance in the dependent variable; thus is desired to be non-significant

 

Nagelkerke's R2

-

the association between predictor variables and the outcome variable. Statistic ranges from 0 to 1 with higher scores indicating stronger associations.

 

% of correctly classified cases

-

calculated at the start of the procedure and at the end of the analysis using the cut-off point of 0.5 for the estimated probability of the outcome variable

 

sensitivity

-

the proportion of true positives or the proportion of cases correctly identified by the test as meeting the response category

 

specificity

-

the proportion of true negatives or the proportion of cases correctly identified by the test as meeting the reference category

 

c statistic

-

varies from 0.5 (the models predictions are no better than chance) to 1 (the model always assigns the higher probabilities to correct cases than incorrect ones)