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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2011 Dec 16;83(1):203–222. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01692.x

Table 4.

Summary of Level 2 (Conditional) growth models: Language Group, RT, Accuracy

Level 2: Conditional

Model 4:
Group
Model 5:
Group x RT
Model 6:
Group x Accuracy
Model Fit (-2LL) 3763.3 3744.0 3729.0
# of Parameters 13 19 19

Fixed Effects Parameter estimates (se)

 Intercept 420.5 (23.6)** 717.3 (99.0)** −46.0 (132.9)
 Linear 55.3 (5.5)** 91.3 (23.8)** 14.7 (31.7)
 Quadratic 1.8 (0.4)** 2.7 (1.9) 1.6 (2.6)
 Group x Intercept 148.4 (31.3)** −36.8 (141.2) 389.6 (202.5)#
 Group x Linear −35.8 (7.3)** −110.5 (33.9)** 111.1 (48.3)*
 Group x Quadratic −3.3 (0.6)** −7.4 (2.8)** 5.4 (4.0)
 RT x Intercept -- −0.4 (0.1)** --
 RT x Linear -- −0.04 (0.03) --
 RT x Quad -- −0.01 (0.01) --
 RT x Group x Intercept -- 0.2 (0.2) --
 RT x Group x Linear -- 0.09 (0.04)* --
 RT x Group x Quad -- 0.01 (0.01) --
 Accuracy x Intercept -- -- 747.8 (210.2)**
 Accuracy x Linear -- -- 65.0 (50.1)
 Accuracy x Quad -- -- 0.2 (4.1)
 Accuracy x Group x Intercept -- -- −406.3 (311.6)
 Accuracy x Group x Linear -- -- −226.3 (74.4)**
 Accuracy x Group x Quad -- -- −13.2 (6.1)*

Random Effects Covariance Estimates (se)

 Within-person 1937.6 (307.1)** 1933.3 (306.1)** 1943.2 (307.8)**
 Intercept 17456.3 (3064.8) 15224.3 (2713.2)** 14405.4 (2591.2)**
 Linear 769.2 (219.1)** 707.1 (161.1)** 647.4 (152.5)**
 Quadratic 5.0 (1.1)* 4.8 (1.1)** 4.3 (1.0)**

Note: se = standard error; t-statistic,

#

p < .07,

*

p < .05, p < .01;

**

Wald Z: p < .001; Significant effects also indicated in bold.