Table 3. RMSE for each VRQoL task and overall VRQoL score.
QoVL Task | VA (worse eye) | VA (better eye) | MD | MR | Random Forest |
‘Letters’ and ‘Sentences’ | 0.98** | 1.03** | 0.94** | 1.38** | 0.84 |
‘Walking’ | 0.38** | 0.43** | 0.34** | 0.49** | 0.30 |
‘Going out’ | 0.40** | 0.46** | 0.42** | 0.54** | 0.32 |
‘Dining’ | 0.37* | 0.40** | 0.38* | 0.52** | 0.33 |
Overall | 2.49** | 2.77** | 2.42** | 3.38** | 1.97 |
Each value is calculated as the absolute difference between predicted VRQoL score and the actual VRQoL score in the testing dataset in the leave-one-out cross validation. RMSE: root mean of the squared prediction error, VRQoL: vision-related quality of life, VA (worse-eye): visual acuity of the eye with worse mean deviation (MD), VA (better-eye): visual acuity of the eye with better MD, MR: Multiple regression with VA (better-eye), VA (worse-eye) and MD of IVF (Integrated Visual Field) (**: p<0.05, *: p<0.01, in comparison with Random Forest, ten fold cross validation).