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. 2016 Apr 26;8:73–89. doi: 10.2147/CLEP.S103330

Table 5.

Comparison of strategies in the activity domain

Subgroup descriptors Summary-score strategy Single-item strategy
Variables, n 4 22
Identified subgroups, n 7 7
Subgroup-size range, n (%) 60–226 (6%–24%) 49–254 (5%–27%)
Posterior probability, median (interquartile range) 0.72 (0.54–0.82) 0.97 (0.85–0.99)
Subjects with posterior probability above 0.33 for more than one subgroup, n (%) 144 (16%) +13 (1%) with no posterior probability >0.33 74 (8%) +2 (<1%) with no posterior probability >0.33
Subgroups’ median posterior probability, mean (range) 0.71 (0.63–0.87) 0.96 (0.93–0.99)
Subjects with posterior probability less than 0.7 on average per subgroup, n (%),range 62 (47%) 21–110 (21%–58%) 17 (13%) 5–30 (9%–19%)
Identified features*, n 3 7
Crossing subgroups#, % (n) 62 (13 of 21) 86 (18 of 21)

Notes:

*

Distinct characteristic defined by a single variable or a group of variables;

#

count of subgroups that crossed in the profile plots (subgroup-by-subgroup matrix).