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Table 3 Inter-lab Agreement for the Different Diagnostic Tests

From: Recombinant antigen-based antibody assays for the diagnosis and surveillance of lymphatic filariasis – a multicenter trial

Assay	Range of Kappa statistics	Mean
Bm14 ELISA	0.690 – 1.00	0.88
SXP Cassette	0.612 – 0.912	0.73
BmR1 ELISA	0.878 – 0.982	0.93
BmR1 Dipstick	0.817 – 0.965	0.87
BmR1 Cassette	0.546 – 1.00	0.80

Kappa statistics were derived from 10 pair-wise inter-lab comparisons.

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