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Table 3.

Summary of logistic regression results

Assessment (metric)	β coefficient	β std. error	P-value
Coordination (balance_percent_in_target_mean)	–2.30	0.97	0.018*
Digit Symbol Substitution (digit_symbol_duration)	–1.93	0.89	0.03*
Immediate Recognition (immediate_recognition_correct)	–0.42	0.20	0.03*
Stroop (stroop_effect_ratio)	2.86	0.83	0.0006*
Trail Making B (trails_b_duration_median)	1.13	0.52	0.03*
Trail Making A (trails_a_duration_mean)	–0.75	1.04	0.83
Delayed Recognition (delayed_recognition_correct)	–0.19	0.14	0.18
Flanker (flanker_correct_mean)	0.015	0.07	0.83
Intercept	9.40	4.61	0.04*

Statistically significant P-values

Declarations

Author contributions

DME and YK contributed conception and design of the study; Data acquisition was performed by BF; SY and BH performed the statistical analysis, under the supervision of RHG. SY, BK and HQP wrote the first draft of manuscript, which was revised and approved by BH and RHG. SY, BK, HQP, KS and BH revised the manuscript for submission. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Conflicts of interest

The following authors declare the following competing interests: SY, BF, YK, BH, KS, RHG reports personal fees from BrainCheck, outside the submitted work; DME, BF, YK, BH, RHG reports receiving stock options from BrainCheck.

Ethical approval

This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Baylor College of Medicine IRB.

Consent to participate

Voluntary written informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

Data may be made available by contacting the corresponding author and with a data use agreement.

Funding

BrainCheck, Inc, provided support in the form of salaries for authors SY, BF, YK, BH, KS, RHG but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript, and only provided financial support in the form of some of the authors’ salaries and research materials (the software battery of tests).

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