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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2011 Mar 21;117(3):528–537. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2011.07224.x

Table 2.

Rules for diagnosing ALS generated using the training set. Rules highlighted in bold represent those utilized on the test set.

Rule Sensitivity Specificity
pNFH > 0.635 84.4% 93.5%
pNFH/C3 > 0.000125 91.1% 88.7%
pNFH/C3 > 0.21 77.8% 95.2%
pNFH/CRP > 0.3755 61.4% 87.1%
pNFH > 0.635 AND
pNFH/C3 > 0.000125
84.4% 95.2%
pNFH/C3 > 0.00021 AND
pNFH/CRP > 0.3755
52.2% 100%
pNFH/C3 > 0.00021 OR
pNFH/CRP > 0.3755
86.4% 83.9%
pNFH > 0.635 AND
pNFH/C3 > 0.000125
AND
pNFH/CRP > 0.3755
59.1% 100%