# # # The Importance of Using an Optimal Cutoff Value for # # the 10-Item Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ10) # # # # Psychological Assessment, 2024 # # # ################################################################################ **Analysis Information** + Psychological_Assessment_Analysis.R: - Analysis script for mega-analysis dataset (Analysis_Data.csv). See script comments for further details. + Analysis_Data.csv: + Structure: - 'data.frame' : 18152 obs. of 10 variables: $ ppt : int Unique ppt ID number $ AQ10 : num Total AQ10 score (0-10) $ DV_Raw : num Dependent Variable in original study units $ Sex : int 0 = Female, 1 = Male, where available $ Age : int Age (years) where available $ Study : chr Study Identifier (Author_Year) $ Variable_Name : chr Variable Identifier $ DV_Z : num Standardised Dependent Variable Score $ DV_Abs : num Absolute Standardised Variable Score $ Diagnosis : int 0 = No Autism Diagnosis, 1 = Autism Diagnosis, where available + Summary Statistics: | n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range skew kurtosis se ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ppt | 13692 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- AQ10 | 13691 3.36 2.19 3.00 3.13 1.48 0.00 10.00 10.00 0.88 0.49 0.02 Sex | 6681 0.35 0.48 0.00 0.32 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 0.61 -1.63 0.01 Age | 6162 34.52 14.52 31.00 32.96 14.83 13.00 83.00 70.00 0.74 -0.50 0.18 Diagnosis | 2425 0.31 0.46 0.00 0.27 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 0.80 -1.35 0.01 Cut6 | 13691 0.16 0.36 0.00 0.07 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 1.90 1.62 0.00 Cut7 | 13691 0.10 0.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 2.70 5.29 0.00 + R sessionInfo: Analyses were conducted using the R Statistical language (version 4.1.0; R Core Team, 2021) on Windows 10 x64 (build 19045) Package | Version | Reference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ boot | 1.3.28 | Angelo Canty and Brian Ripley (2021). boot: Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions. R package version 1.3-28. caret | 6.0.88 | Max Kuhn (2021). caret: Classification and Regression Training. R package version 6.0-88. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=caret DescTools | 0.99.44 | Andri Signorell et mult. al. (2021). DescTools: Tools for descriptive statistics. R package version 0.99.44. dplyr | 1.0.6 | Hadley Wickham, Romain François, Lionel Henry and Kirill Müller (2021). dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation. R package version 1.0.6. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr ggplot2 | 3.3.6 | H. Wickham. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York, 2016. lattice | 0.20.44 | Sarkar, Deepayan (2008) Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R. Springer, New York. ISBN 978-0-387-75968-5 lme4 | 1.1.27 | Douglas Bates, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker, Steve Walker (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01. Matrix | 1.3.3 | Douglas Bates and Martin Maechler (2021). Matrix: Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods. R package version 1.3-3. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Matrix plyr | 1.8.6 | Hadley Wickham (2011). The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(1), 1-29. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/. psych | 2.1.3 | Revelle, W. (2020) psych: Procedures for Personality and Psychological Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=psych Version = 2.1.3,. R | 4.1.0 | R Core Team (2021). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/. report | 0.5.1 | Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M.S., Patil, I. & Lüdecke, D. (2020). Automated Results Reporting as a Practical Tool to Improve Reproducibility and Methodological Best Practices Adoption. Rmisc | 1.5.1 | Ryan M. Hope (2022). Rmisc: Ryan Miscellaneous. R package version 1.5.1. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rmisc rstatix | 0.7.0 | Alboukadel Kassambara (2021). rstatix: Pipe-Friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests. R package version 0.7.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rstatix sjPlot | 2.8.11 | Lüdecke D (2022). _sjPlot: Data Visualization for Statistics in SocialScience_. R package version 2.8.11, .