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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