Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for logistic regression of fund or reject decision from reviewer mean scores with different numbers of external reviewers for 263 applications that resulted in an outcome of fund or rejectÂ
| Number of reviewers | N (applications) | AUC | 95% CI |
| All applications with fund or reject outcome | 263 | 0.62 | 0.59 to 0.65 |
| 4 | 38 | 0.75 | 0.59 to 0.91 |
| 5 | 82 | 0.76 | 0.66 to 0.87 |
| 6 | 79 | 0.68 | 0.56 to 0.80 |
| 7–9 | 57 | 0.80 | 0.67 to 0.92 |
AUC, area under the curve.