Table 2.
Statistical model | All patientsa [n = 788, N = 4850] |
Confirmed death only used in model fits i.e. excluding censors [n = 718, N = 3627] |
Last year of life only used in model fits [n = 587, N = 2007] |
Artificially censoring at 24 months follow-up [n = 617, N = 2645] |
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MAE | QICu | MAE | QICu | MAE | QICu | MAE | QICu | |
0.184 | 4853 | 0.183 | 3629 | 0.193 | 2009 | 0.184 | 2656 | |
0.173 | 4847 | 0.178 | 3628 | 0.190 | 2008 | 0.179 | 2656 | |
0.179 | 4847 | 0.177 | 3628 | 0.190 | 2008 | 0.180 | 2656 | |
NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.201 | 2009 | 0.193 | 2652 | |
NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.195 | 2009 | 0.186 | 2656 | |
NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.190 | 2010 | 0.181 | 2657 | |
Time to death grouping (≤4 weeks, 5–26 weeks, 27–52 weeks, ≥52 weeks) | 0.175 | 4849 | 0.178 | 3631 | 0.191 | 2011 | 0.180 | 2658 |
Progression-based utilities (pre/post progression) | 0.193 | 4852 | 0.191 | 3629 | 0.201 | 2009 | 0.194 | 2656 |
Bold formatting shows the preferred Log(TTD) model fit
n number of patients, N number of observations, MAE mean absolute error, QICu Quasi Information Criterion, TTD time to death (days), NA not applicable (model did not converge)
aDate last known alive used as the date of death for continuous TTD models