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Table 2 Demographics for accurately and inaccurately classified cases

From: Why are only some children with autism spectrum disorder misclassified by the social communication questionnaire? An empirical investigation of individual differences in sensitivity and specificity in a clinic-referred sample

Mean ± SD

True positives (TP)

False negatives (FN)

False positives (FP)

True negatives (TN)

Comparison

Chi-Square/F value

Post hoc analysis (Bonferroni or Fisher’s exact test)

Gender, N (%)

(N = 90)

(N = 43)

(N = 22)

(N = 32)

  

 Male

65 (72.22)

29 (67.44)

14 (63.63)

20 (62.50)

1.37

 

 Female

25 (27.78)

14 (32.56)

8 (36.37)

12 (37.50)

 

Age (Mean ± SD)

 Child

9.49 ± 4.64

9.33 ± 3.85

8.91 ± 3.23

9.24 ± 2.91

0.13

 

Comorbidity, N (%)

 ADHD

41 (45.56)

8 (18.60)

11 (50.00)

21 (65.63)

18.78c

TN and FP > FN

 Behavioral Disorders

1 (1.11)

1 (2.33)

6 (27.27)

1 (3.13)

17.88c

FP > TP, FN, and TN

 Anxiety disorders

25 (27.78)

9 (20.93)

9 (40.91)

18 (56.25)

12.45b

TN > TP and FN

 Depressive disorders

5 (6.10)

1 (2.33)

1 (4.55)

6 (18.75)

8.78a

TN > TP, FN, and FP

 Language disorders

41 (45.56)

14 (32.56)

4 (18.18)

6 (18.75)

11.00a

TP > FP and TN

 Learning disorders

1 (1.11)

1 (2.33)

1 (4.55)

3 (9.38)

5.43

 

 Intellectual disability

24 (26.67)

6 (13.95)

1 (4.55)

1 (3.13)

12.96b

TP > FP and TN

 Any comorbiditye

77 (85.56)

22 (51.16)

16 (72.73)

28 (87.50)

15.68b

TP, FP, TN > FN

  1. p value a: p < 0.05; b: p < 0.01; c: p < 0.001; d: p < 0.0001
  2. eThe individual received two or more diagnoses as the final diagnoses of their clinical evaluations