Table 2.

Range of values for selected cause-specific and overall metrics of individual cause assignment and CSMF estimation for two different hypothetical VA assignment methods across 500 test datasets where the cause composition of the test datasets has been randomly varied.

	Method 1				Method 2
Cause A	Mean	Median	Max	Min	Mean	Median	Max	Min
Sensitivity	0.70	0.70	0.70	0.70	0.80	0.80	0.80	0.80
Specificity	0.95	0.95	0.96	0.94	0.95	0.95	0.96	0.94
Absolute CSMF error	0.08	0.06	0.29	0.00	0.05	0.04	0.19	0.00
Relative CSMF error	0.74	0.24	53.38	0.00	0.71	0.15	53.48	0.00
Chance-corrected concordance	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.70	0.70	0.70	0.70
Estimated versus true regression	Intercept	Slope		RMSE	Intercept	Slope		RMSE
	0.52	0.64		0.00	0.52	0.74		.00
Cause B	Mean	Median	Max	Min	Mean	Median	Max	Min
Sensitivity	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60
Specificity	0.69	0.69	0.97	0.42	0.70	0.70	0.98	0.42
Absolute CSMF error	0.17	0.15	0.57	0.00	0.17	0.15	0.57	0.00
Relative CSMF error	4.50	0.37	229.07	0.00	4.43	0.37	228.56	0.00
Chance-corrected concordance	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40
Estimated versus true regression	Intercept	Slope		RMSE	Intercept	Slope		RMSE
	0.30	0.29		0.11	0.30	0.30		0.11
Cause C	Mean	Median	Max	Min	Mean	Median	Max	Min
Sensitivity	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35
Specificity	0.69	0.69	0.73	0.64	0.73	0.73	0.82	0.64
Absolute CSMF error	0.20	0.19	0.63	0.00	0.19	0.17	0.63	0.00
Relative CSMF error	6.75	0.50	793.85	0.00	6.01	0.49	780.54	0.00
Chance-corrected concordance	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02
Estimated versus true regression	Intercept	Slope		RMSE	Intercept	Slope		RMSE
	0.31	0.03		0.01	0.26	0.08		0.03
Overall causes	Mean	Median	Max	Min	Mean	Median	Max	Min
Kappa	0.26	0.28	0.47	0.00	0.30	0.33	0.53	0.00
Total absolute CSMF error	0.46	0.45	1.26	0.01	0.42	0.37	1.26	0.03
CSMF accuracy	0.75	0.75	1.00	0.37	0.77	0.80	0.98	0.36