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Table 2 Agreement statistics for log10 parasitemia/mL by microscopy and 18S qPCR

From: A validation study of microscopy versus quantitative PCR for measuring Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia

 

Microscopy versus 18S qPCR

n

355

ICC (95% CI)

0.965 (0.956–0.971)

Paired t test (95% CI)

 Mean difference (95% CI)

0.04 (− 0.01–0.10)

p value

0.088

Passing–Bablok regression

 Intercept (95% CI)

0.06 (− 0.18–0.28)

 Slope (95% CI)

1.01 (0.97–1.04)

 H statistic

1.50

  1. CI confidence interval, ICC intraclass correlation coefficient