The Pattern Element Scale: A Brief Tool of Traditional Medical Subtyping for Dementia

Table 2

Area under curves of subscales in the pattern element scale.

Pattern element	Area	Standard error	Progressive sig.	Progressive 95% confidence interval
				Lower limit	Upper limit
Kidney deficiency	0.705	0.040	0.000	0.645	0.785
Spleen deficiency	0.700	0.062	0.040	0.583	0.770
Qi deficiency	0.873	0.031	0.000	0.811	0.934
Yin deficiency	0.927	0.023	0.000	0.881	0.972
Yang deficiency	0.833	0.012	0.000	0.852	0.946
Marrow deficiency	0.877	0.037	0.000	0.804	0.949
Yang hyperactivity	0.974	0.011	0.000	0.952	0.996
Endogenous heat	0.897	0.033	0.000	0.833	0.961
Phlegm muddiness	0.900	0.023	0.000	0.855	0.946
Blood stasis	0.955	0.014	0.000	0.928	0.982
Blood deficiency	0.869	0.032	0.000	0.807	0.946

Under nonparametric hypothesis, null hypothesis: actual area is 0.5.