Table 6.
Root Mean Squared Error Across Classes for Outcome Means E(Y|C) of Continuous Distal Outcomes
| Homoskedastic | Heteroskedastic | Exponential | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Even | Uneven | Even | Uneven | Even | Uneven | |
| Unadjusted (Modal) | 0.060 | 0.081 | 0.120 | 0.190 | 0.088 | 0.127 |
| (Proportional) | 0.061 | 0.082 | 0.123 | 0.184 | 0.087 | 0.123 |
| ML (Modal) | 0.064 | 0.088 | 0.519 | 0.595 | 0.105 | 0.841 |
| (Proportional) | 0.062 | 0.085 | 0.392 | 1.118 | 0.121 | 1.413 |
| BCH (Modal) | 0.064 | 0.088 | 0.126 | 0.210 | 0.096 | 0.141 |
| Inclusive (Modal) | 0.068 | 0.097 | 1.600 | 1.041 | 0.098 | 0.154 |
| (Proportional) | 0.062 | 0.086 | 1.524 | 0.970 | 0.091 | 0.136 |
| Quadratic (Modal) | 0.068 | 0.097 | 0.119 | 0.209 | 0.098 | 0.152 |
| (Proportional) | 0.063 | 0.086 | 0.115 | 0.193 | 0.092 | 0.136 |
| Oracle | 0.054 | 0.071 | 0.109 | 0.183 | 0.077 | 0.117 |
Note: Only the results for low measurement quality and modal assignment are shown. For BCH, only modal assignment is shown, because modal and proportional assignment were found to give identical results in LatentGOLD for continuous distal outcomes.