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Table 5 Mapping models used to generate health state utility values using adolescent BWS preferences

From: Adolescent valuation of CARIES-QC-U: a child-centred preference-based measure of dental caries

Variables

Anchored DCETTO utilities

Linear

Squared

Cubed

Modelled BWS value linear

0.119***

1.047*

0.079

 

(0.000)

(0.070)

(0.471)

Modelled BWS value squared

–

-0.004***

-0.000

 

–

(0.006)

(0.992)

Modelled BWS value cubed

–

–

0.000

 

–

–

(0.763)

Constant

1.503***

1.194***

1.280***

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

Mean absolute difference

0.113

0.110

0.110

Number of predictions > 0.05 from observed DCETTO

181

177

180

Number of predictions > 0.1 from observed DCETTO

124

114

115

Observations

243

243

243

R-squared

0.788

0.795

0.795

  1. p values are in parentheses, where ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1