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Table 3.

Pairwise Pearson correlations among the residuals around the LOWESS lines in Figure 2 for 3844 respondents.

	EQ-5D	HUI2	HUI3	QWB-SA	SF-6D
HUI2	–0.29^*
HUI3	–0.38^*	0.42^***
QWB-SA	–0.15^*	–0.08^*	–0.10^*
SF-6D	–0.11^*	–0.17^*	–0.22^*	–0.16^*
HALex	0.03	–0.04^**	0.002	0.10^*	0.14^*

EQ-5D, EuroQoL EQ-5D, Health Utilities Index Mark 2; HUI3, Health Utilities Index Mark 3; QWB-SA, Quality of Well-Being Index Self-Administered Version; SF-6D, a utility-valued summary scale based on data from the SF –36v2 ™ ; HALex, Health Activities Limitation Index; LOWESS, locally weighted scatterplot smoothing.

P< 0.001

^**

P < 0.05

^***

P <0.001 (this correlation also reflects common variance in HUI2 and HUI3 due to the fact that they are two different calculations using the same set of answers to 40 questions).