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Table 4 Out of sample predictions for 12 health states

From: Use of Bayesian methods to model the SF-6D health state preference based data

Health state

True sample mean

Bayesian Posterior Inference

Frequentist Inference

Mean

S.D.

Difference

Mean

S.D.

Difference

112111

0.8212

0.8704

0.0867

-0.0492

0.9442

0.1184

-0.123

133132

0.5686

0.7400

0.0884

-0.1714

0.7508

0.1096

-0.1822

223451

0.6755

0.5122

0.0892

0.1633

0.6107

0.1366

0.0648

235224

0.4687

0.6050

0.0896

-0.1363

0.6331

0.1105

-0.1644

241531

0.7534

0.6282

0.0894

0.1252

0.6743

0.0897

0.0791

325455

0.4677

0.4612

0.0883

0.0065

0.4985

0.0977

-0.0308

332411

0.7692

0.7353

0.0896

0.0339

0.7329

0.1061

0.0363

333154

0.6364

0.6013

0.0879

0.0351

0.6482

0.0890

-0.0118

421314

0.7121

0.7597

0.0898

-0.0476

0.7658

0.1057

-0.0537

423433

0.5759

0.6172

0.0878

-0.0413

0.6564

0.1141

-0.0805

545644

0.2484

0.3269

0.0872

-0.0785

0.4295

0.1268

-0.1811

621221

0.4937

0.6235

0.0889

-0.1298

0.6581

0.1020

-0.1644