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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Drug Issues. 2010 WINTER;40(1):173–194. doi: 10.1177/002204261004000110

Table 3.

Conditional Growth Mixture Models Including a Covariate

Model 3a: included early heroin use
Model 3b: included early alcohol use
Model 3c: included ethnicity
Increased Decreased
Late
Decreased
Early
Moderate Increased Decreas
ed Late
Decrease
d Early
Moderate Increased Decreased
Late
Decreased
Early
Moderate
Means
 Intercept (I) 1.05** 1.94** 2.27** 2.52** −0.27 2.56** 2.49** 0.78 1.28* 1.91** 2.21* 1.69**
 Slope (S) 0.28** 0.29** −0.02 −0.29** −0.32* −0.40* −0.33 0.16 0.14 0.08 −0.25 0.34
 Quadratic (Q) −0.01** −0.03** −0.05** 0.02** 0.04** 0.03 −0.03 −0.08 −0.01 −0.07** 0.01 −0.04
I on early use 1.06** −0.49 −1.12 0.61 1.83** −0.76* 0.06 1.50** -- -- -- --
S on early use −0.47** 0.06 0.72* −0.60 0.41** 0.71** −0.13 0.28 -- -- -- --
Q on early use 0.03** 0.01 −0.02 −0.01 −0.04** −0.06** 0.05* −0.02* -- -- -- --
I on Hispanic -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.12 0.13 0.69 1.20
S on Hispanic -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- −8.22** 0.13 −1.84** 0.30
Q on Hispanic -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.06 0.20 0.03 −0.75*
I on Black -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 3.06** 0.10 1.09** −0.41
S on Black -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- −0.004 0.04 −0.04 0.06*
Q on Black -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- −0.12** 0.03 −0.07** 0.04
Variance1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 Intercept 0.46** 0.46** 0.46** 0.46** 0.41** 0.41** 0.41** 0.41** 0.43** 0.43** 0.43** 0.43**
Residual Variance 2.19** 2.19** 2.19** 2.19** 2.23** 2.23** 2.23** 2.23** 2.22** 2.22** 2.22** 2.22**
Logit of probability of
class membership
 Mean logit 0.11 −0.23 −0.96** -- −0.80 −0.58 −0.96 -- 0.12 −0.60 −0.02 --
 Membership on early
 Use
1.25 1.55** 1.43** -- 3.02** 2.14 1.86* -- -- -- -- --
 Membership on
 Hispanic
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.07 0.77 −1.21 --
 Membership on Black -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- −3.03 −0.16 −0.72 --
Mortality % 43.8 44.0 36.2 35.7 42.1 43.8 32.3 39.5 39.5 41.0 33.3 46.7
Number of subjects (%)
in each class
162 (34) 125 (27) 58 (12) 126 (27) 209 (44) 121 (26) 65 (14) 76 (16) 185 (39) 100 (21) 66 (14) 120 (25)
Goodness of fit
 Bayesian (BIC) 24655.03 24660.9 24793.89
 LMR LRT p=0.038 p=0.44 p=0.362
1

Variances of Slope and Quadratic were constrained to zero.

*

p <0.05

**

p <0.01