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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Appl Stat Sci. 2010 Oct;3(2):203–235.

Table 7.

Parameter Estimates and Odds Ratios for Alcohol or Drug Treatment as a Covariate Predicting Transitions in Drug Use Latent Class Membership

β

Time 2 Latent Class Membership
Time 1 Latent
Class Membership
Non-users Smokers Moderate
Drinkers/
Smokers
CCH Users

Non-users 1.00a 1.00a 1.00a 1.00a
Smokers 0.00b 0.00b 0.81
Moderate Drinkers/Smokers 0.00b 1.76 0.00b
CCH Users 0.00b 0.00b −0.77

Odds Ratio

Time 2 Latent Class Membership
Time 1 Latent
Class Membership
Non-users Smokers Moderate
Drinkers/
Smokers
CCH Users

Non-users 1.00a 1.00a 1.00a 1.00a
Smokers 1.00b 1.00b 2.25
Moderate Drinkers/Smokers 1.00b 5.84 1.00b
CCH Users 1.00b 1.00b 0.46

Note: CCH is crack, cocaine or heroin. Dashes indicate the reference latent class.

a

The multinomial logistic regression was skipped for this row of the transition maxtrix.

b

This transition probability was constrained to be equal to zero.