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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2012 May 8;68(4):1157–1167. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01774.x

Table 2.

Included covariate results for Model 1A.

Percentiles

Covariate Mean SD 0.025 0.50 0.975
Intercept** −1.515 0.279 −2.065 −1.513 −0.979

Maternal Race
Black vs. White** 0.149 0.067 0.018 0.149 0.280
Hispanic vs. White −0.043 0.038 −0.117 −0.044 0.033
Other vs. White 0.086 0.070 −0.053 0.086 0.227

Paternal Race
Black vs. White 0.009 0.065 −0.118 0.010 0.135
Hispanic vs. White −0.008 0.039 −0.084 −0.009 0.070
Other vs. White ** −0.190 0.073 −0.337 −0.189 −0.046

Maternal Age Group
20 – 24 vs. 10 – 19** −0.068 0.033 −0.132 −0.069 −0.003
25 – 29 vs. 10 – 19 −0.021 0.036 −0.091 −0.021 0.052
30 – 34 vs. 10 – 19 0.044 0.041 −0.036 0.045 0.126
35 – 39 vs. 10 – 19** 0.127 0.052 0.026 0.127 0.229
⩾ 40 vs. 10 – 19** 0.308 0.090 0.128 0.309 0.478

Paternal Age ⩾ 50 vs. < 50 −0.044 0.128 −0.302 −0.041 0.204

Maternal Education
Basis Spline 1 −0.396 0.348 −1.053 −0.401 0.303
Basis Spline 2 0.185 0.172 −0.140 0.180 0.529
Basis Spline 3 0.022 0.204 −0.360 0.018 0.434

Paternal Education
Basis Spline 1 0.160 0.307 −0.429 0.153 0.786
Basis Spline 2 −0.003 0.150 −0.290 −0.005 0.296
Basis Spline 3 −0.055 0.177 −0.389 −0.059 0.305

Female vs. Male Baby** −0.069 0.021 −0.110 −0.069 −0.027

The (**) items have 95% credible intervals which do not include zero. The MC error for the means ranged from 0.0005 to 0.0077 with an average value of 0.0027.