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Table 3 Relationship with external criteria (95% confidence intervals between brackets) of the CAT estimates under several stopping rules.

From: A proof of principle for using adaptive testing in routine Outcome Monitoring: the efficiency of the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire -Anhedonic Depression CAT

Stopping rule

MASQ-AA(r)

MASQ-GD (r)

Any Depression (auc)

None: Sum score

0.499 (0.475 - 0.524)

0.784 (0.772 - 0.797)

0.815 (0.801 - 0.829)

None: θ ^

0.460 (0.434 - 0.486)

0.739 (0.724 - 0.754)

0.810 (0.795 - 0.824)

SE(θ) <0.2

0.453 (0.427 - 0.479)

0.730 (0.715 - 0.746)

0.807 (0.793 - 0.822)

SE(θ) <0.3

0.414 (0.387 - 0.442)

0.685 (0.668 - 0.703)

0.794 (0.779 - 0.809)

SE(θ) <0.4

0.396 (0.368 - 0.423)

0.651 (0.632 - 0.670)

0.782 (0.767 - 0.797)

SE(θ) <0.5

0.385 (0.358 - 0.413)

0.627 (0.607 - 0.647)

0.769 (0.754 - 0.784)

SE(θ) <0.6

0.336 (0.307 - 0.365)

0.556 (0.533 - 0.578)

0.746 (0.730 - 0.762)

  1. Note. r is the Pearson correlation; AUC is the area under the ROC-curve.