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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2009 Jun;23(2):248–259. doi: 10.1037/a0015061

Table 4.

Comparison of the Fit of Alternative Function Forms, Separately, for Adoption of Consensual Positive and Consensual Negative Alcohol Outcome Expectancies (LL=Log-Likelihood for A-B Comparison, BIC=Bayesian Information Criterion for Other Comparisons)

Positive Expectancies
Models	Measures of Fit			Model Comparisons

	LL	BIC	df	A	B
A. Linear (Fixed)	-5222.2	10542.3	45	-----
B. Linear (8 Freed)	-5216.7	10580.1	37	5.5	-----
C. Piece-wise @ 12.0	-5192.1	10506.5	41	35.8^***	73.6^***

Negative Expectancies

A. Linear (Fixed)	-6174.3	12446.4	45	-----
B. Linear (8 Freed)	-6144.3	12435.4	37	30.0^***	-----
C. Piece-wise @ 12.0	-6154.2	12430.6	41	15.8^**	-4.8

^***

p <.001.

^**

p<.01.

df = degrees of freedom (for comparisons, df = difference in model df’s).