| All baseline data | Estimation dataset | Validation dataset | Differencea | |||||||
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 | Mean | SD | Observations | Mean | SD | Observations | Mean | SD | Observations | t statistic | p value |
Measure | |||||||||||
 FSS | 43.73 | 15.10 | 1054 | 43.44 | 15.16 | 787 | 44.60 | 14.91 | 267 | −1.085 | 0.278 |
 EQ-5D | 0.596 | 0.295 | 1346 | 0.600 | 0.291 | 1005 | 0.584 | 0.309 | 341 | 0.831 | 0.406 |
 SF-6D | 0.646 | 0.130 | 632 | 0.650 | 0.135 | 473 | 0.636 | 0.113 | 159 | 1.141 | 0.254 |
 MSIS-8D | 0.646 | 0.185 | 690 | 0.647 | 0.190 | 523 | 0.641 | 0.172 | 167 | 0.412 | 0.681 |
Characteristic | |||||||||||
 Age | 50.67 | 11.68 | 1400 | 50.74 | 11.73 | 1048 | 50.45 | 11.54 | 352 | 0.402 | 0.688 |
 Duration (years) | 9.62 | 10.01 | 1347 | 9.61 | 10.00 | 1009 | 9.68 | 10.09 | 338 | −0.113 | 0.910 |
 EDSS score | 4.30 | 2.31 | 289 | 4.32 | 2.34 | 218 | 4.22 | 2.24 | 71 | 0.324 | 0.746 |
 | Percentage | Observations | Percentage | Observations | Percentage | Observations | chi2 statistic | p value | |||
Gender | |||||||||||
 Female | 73.86% | 1040 | 74.62% | 788 | 71.59% | 252 | 1.256 | 0.262 | |||
 Male | 26.14% | 368 | 25.38% | 268 | 28.41% | 100 |  |  | |||
MS type | |||||||||||
 Relapsing remitting | 41.97% | 572 | 42.66% | 439 | 39.82% | 133 | 7.572 | 0.109 | |||
 Primary progressive | 19.37% | 264 | 18.56% | 191 | 21.86% | 73 |  |  | |||
 Secondary progressive | 16.95% | 231 | 17.69% | 182 | 14.67% | 49 |  |  | |||
 Benign | 3.3% | 45 | 3.69% | 38 | 2.10% | 7 |  |  | |||
 DK or combination | 18.42% | 251 | 17.40% | 179 | 21.56% | 72 |  |  | |||
 Missing |  | 45 |  | 27 |  | 18 |  |  | |||
Recent relapseb | |||||||||||
 Yes | 53.55% | 732 | 53.42% | 546 | 53.91% | 186 | 0.025 | 0.988 | |||
 No | 33.28% | 455 | 33.37% | 341 | 33.04% | 114 |  |  | |||
 Don’t know | 13.17% | 180 | 13.21% | 135 | 13.04% | 45 |  |  | |||
 Missing |  | 41 |  | 34 |  | 7 |  |  |