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Table 5.

Linkset Probabilities by Education Level

				Less than high school (LHS) (N = 5724)	High school or some college (HS) (N = 17,053)	College (COL) (N = 6846)
Alternative medical system (AMS)	Biologically based therapy (BBT)	Manipulative and body based therapies (MBB)	Mind–body therapies with prayer (MBT)	β^a	β^a	β^a	Comparison
				0.001	0.004^***	0.004^**
				0.070^***	0.120^***	0.190^***
				0.031^***	0.064^***	0.067^***
				0.502^***	0.455^***	0.455^***
				0.002^*	0.002^***	0.008^***	COL > HS^, COL > LHS^*
				0.003^**	0.001^**	0.005^**	COL > HS^*
				0.003^*	0.010^***	0.015^***	COL > HS^, COL > LHS^
				0.001	0.002^**	0.008^***	COL > LHS^*, COL > HS^
				0.042^***	0.068^***	0.089^***	HS > LHS^*, COL > LHS^*
				0.008^***	0.018^***	0.036^***	HS > LHS^, COL > LHS^, COL > HS^*
				0.000	0.002^***	0.004^**	HS > LHS, COL > LHS^*
				0.004^***	0.004^***	0.010^***	COL > LHS^*, COL > HS^
				0.000	0.001^*	0.000
				0.004^**	0.013^***	0.025^***	HS > LHS^*, COL > LHS^, COL > HS^*
				0.001^*	0.006^***	0.011^***	HS > LHS^*, COL > LHS^, COL > HS^

Shading indicates use of complementary type, either alone or in combination.

^{^a}

β is probability that complementary and alternative medicine types are linked.

^{^*}

p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 (two-tailed).