Table 1. Univariate statistics of independent variables for the suicide and control groups.
Suicide group | Control group | ||||
Variable | |||||
MeanSD | Range | MeanSD | Range | p-value | |
(min,max) | (min,max) | ||||
Age | 27.410.3 | (17, 97) | 27.79.2 | (14, 96) | 0.000652 |
Community number | 283.7284.3 | (1, 1000) | 46.379.4 | (1, 1000) | 0.0001 |
82.998.7 | (2, 1000) | 65.867.6 | (2, 1000) | 0.0001 | |
0.0870.097 | (0, 1) | 0.1500.138 | (0, 1) | 0.0001 | |
Homophily (suicide) | 0.01100.0329 | (0, 1.000) | 0.00120.0080 | (0, 0.667) | 0.0001 |
Registration period | 1235.7638.9 | (122, 2878) | 1333.5670.5 | (102, 2891) | 0.0001 |
Gender (female) | 5,786 (57.9) | 126,941 (55.4) | 0.0001 | ||
No. suicidal communities | 1.200.51 | (1, 4) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
No. login days | 28.94.4 | (1, 31) | 26.96.3 | (1, 31) | 0.0001 |
The p-value for the gender is based on the Chi-square test. The p-values for the other independent variables are based on the Student’s t-test. Also shown are the statistics of two auxiliary variables that are not used in the logistic regression, i.e., the number of suicidal communities to which the user belongs and the number of days on which the user logged on to mixi. The p-value for the number of log-on days is based on the Student’s t-test. SD: standard deviation.