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Table 4 Summary of the generic utility assessments results

From: A method for generating synthetic longitudinal health data

Metric

Result

Percent difference in sequence lengths

0.4%

Hellinger distance of event distribution

0.027

Hellinger distance of event attributes

 Mean (SD)

0.0417

 Median (IQR)

0.0303 (0.0333)

Hellinger distance of Markov Transition Matrices of Order 1:

 Mean (SD)

0.0896 (0.159)

 Median (IQR)

0.0209 (0.0303)

Hellinger distance of Markov Transition Matrices of Order 2:

 Mean (SD)

0.2195 (0.2724)

 Median (IQR)

0.0597 (0.4401)

Multivariate Hellinger distance

0.352

Utility of 100 random cohorts:

 Hellinger distance:

  Mean (SD)

0.3039 (0.0674)

  Median (IQR)

0.3128 (0.0358)

 Normalized Euclidean distance:

  Mean (SD)

0.0639 (0.1145)

  Median (IQR)

0.0146 (0.0596)