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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ment Retard. 2008 Jul;113(4):263–277. doi: 10.1352/0895-8017(2008)113[263:SACIHF]2.0.CO;2

Table 2.

Hierarchical Linear Model Estimates for Health of Adults With Mental Retardation (MR)

Model Coefficient Standard
Error
Model for initial status
  Intercept   3.242** .034
  Gender   0.025 .067
  Age −0.013** .005
  Level of MR   0.153+ .080
  DSa   0.046 .071
  Family relations   0.033** .009
Model for change
  Slope −0.014* .006
  Gender −0.002 .010
  Age −0.001 .001
  Level of MR −0.016 .012
  DS −0.020+ .011
  Family relations −0.001 .001
Time varying covariates
  Placement −0.223** .042
  Parental death   0.099* .044
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Down syndrome.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

+

p < .10.