Table 3 Summary of BREM by sex.

From: A case study of an individual participant data meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy showed that prediction regions represented heterogeneity well

Subgroup

Parameter

Pooled estimate (95% CI)

Between study standard deviations* (95% CI)

\({\widehat{\rho }}_{\tau }\) (95% CI)

Area of prediction region

Female

FPR

0.19 (0.16, 0.22)

0.73 (0.53, 0.88)

0.30 (− 0.08, 0.67)

14.58

TPR

0.84 (0.79, 0.88)

1.00 (0.67, 1.29)

Male

FPR

0.14 (0.12, 0.17)

0.68 (0.49, 0.83)

0.69 (0.35, 100)

9.03

TPR

0.80 (0.75, 0.85)

0.85 (0.49, 1.15)

  1. *Standard deviations relate to the logit estimates. These are \({\tau }_{0}, {\tau }_{1.}\)
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