Clinical Study

Diagnostic Validity of Clinical Signs Associated with a Large Exophoria at Near

Table 3

Area under the ROC curve for different tests.

VariableAreaConfidence interval to 95 % -value
Low limitTop limit

NPC recovery0.9290.8551<0.001
BAF0.8860.7970.976<0.001
NPC break0.8160.7040.928<0.001
MAF0.8140.7040.925<0.001
VF0.7870.6720.901<0.001
MEM0.7140.5890.8390.003
NRA0.6650.5330.7970.02

NPC: near point of convergence, BAF: binocular accommodative facility, MAF: monocular accommodative facility, VF: vergence facility, MEM: monocular estimate method, NRA: negative relative accommodation, P < 0.05: the obtained area differs statistically from the real value of 0.5.