Table 3.
Ordinal regression for results of the comprehension scores (Data set 2).
| Variable | Odds ratio | SE | 95% CI Lower, Upper |
Wald χ2 | Value of p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group | |||||
| Under 4 | −1.593 | 0.597 | −2.762, −0.424 | 7.127 | 0.008 |
| 5 to 19 years | −0.758 | 0.510 | −1.759, 0.242 | 2.203 | 0.137 |
| Diagnosis | |||||
| Non-autistic | 0.199 | 0.482 | −0.746, 1.144 | 0.171 | 0.680 |
| Communication level | |||||
| Single words | −0.180 | 0.595 | −1.347, 0.987 | 0.091 | 0.763 |
| Simple sentences | −0.311 | 0.408 | −1.111, 0.488 | 0.582 | 0.446 |
| Gender | |||||
| Other | −1.086 | 0.662 | −2.383, 0.212 | 2.689 | 0.101 |
| Female | 0.674 | 0.499 | −0.303, 1.651 | 1.828 | 0.176 |
SE, Standard Error; CI, Confidence Interval.