highly significantP<0.001
0.10) but still highly significant (deviance difference 42.1 on 1 df, P<0.001).
0.10) but still highly significant (deviance difference 42.1 on 1 df, P<0.001).
Adjustment for this positive confounding, however, still left a significant trend to increasing prevalence of herpes virus infection over time; that is, the trend was evident within the separate categories of cytological abnormality which defined the subsample.
The value of Kappa, 0.26, for 'minor deviations from normal' was probably little affected by the trends in reporting of HPV infection and definite dyskaryosis although this category showed a trend of its own in that more normal smears were considered to show minor deviations from normal on review than conversely.