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Table 7 Area under the ROC curves for MUAC-for-age against BMI-for-age and that of mCIAF against MUAC-for-age

From: Use of modified composite index of anthropometric failure and MUAC-for-age to assess prevalence of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents involved in the school feeding program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Reference

Classifier

ROCa Area

SEb

Asymptotic Normal [95% CIc]

BMI-for-age

MUAC-for-age

0.68

0.009

0.66

0.70

MUAC-for-age

mCIAF

0.70

0.008

0.69

0.72

  1. aROC Receiver operating characteristic
  2. bSE Standard Error
  3. cCI Confidence Interval