Table 4 Distribution of errors by observed EQ-5D and SF-6D range

HIT-6 CLAD (1)

CH-QLQ CLAD (3)

EQ-5D Range

MSE

MAE

MSE

MAE

  < 0

0.4934

0.6878

0.2794

0.4667

 0—0.1

0.2604

0.5020

0.1774

0.3603

 0.1—0.2

0.1476

0.3735

0.0671

0.2069

 0.2—0.3

0.1139

0.3293

0.1095

0.2899

 0.3—0.4

0.0717

0.2566

0.0744

0.2358

 0.4 – 0.5

0.0293

0.1479

0.0433

0.1835

 0.5 – 0.6

0.0167

0.1086

0.0442

0.1724

 0.6 – 0.7

0.0078

0.0676

0.0339

0.1250

 0.7 – 0.8

0.0135

0.0985

0.0210

0.0966

 0.8 – 0.9

0.0406

0.1824

0.0502

0.1585

 0.9 – 1.0

0.1285

0.3300

0.1814

0.3691

HIT-6 CLAD (2)

CH-QLQ OLS (2)

SF-6D Range

MSE

MAE

MSE

MAE

 0.35 – 0.5

0.0123

0.0937

0.0110

0.0830

 0.5 – 0.6

0.0032

0.0451

0.0046

0.0543

 0.6 – 0.7

0.0039

0.0499

0.0035

0.0449

 0.7 – 0.8

0.0175

0.1165

0.0115

0.0890

 0.8 – 0.9

0.0465

0.2045

0.0300

0.1635

 0.9—1.0

0.0826

0.2804

0.0665

0.2529