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. 2013 Jun 18;15(11):1883–1891. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntt074

Table 2.

Latent Class Analysis of Smoking Contexts

Indicators of context Class 1: angry, talking with friend Class 2: social Class 3: alone Class 4: angry, with spouse Class 5: with spouse smoking
Latent class prevalences
19% 28% 35% 7% 11%
Item-response probabilities
Smoking availability
  Easily available 0.79 0.91 0.64 0.34 0.86
  Available with difficulty 0.17 0.08 0.24 0.55 0.11
  Not available 0.04 0.01 0.12 0.11 0.03
Location
  Home/vehicle/other’s home 0.44 0.29 0.85 0.90 0.65
  Work/school/other 0.37 0.06 0.12 0.03 0.07
  Bar/restaurant/public place 0.19 0.64 0.03 0.07 0.28
Probability of a yes response
  Talking 0.55 0.65 0.07 0.39 0.65
  Leisure activities 0.06 0.53 0.22 0.25 0.34
  Drinking 0.07 0.75 0.16 0.24 0.45
  With spouse 0.02 0.17 0.00 0.60 1.00
  With friend 0.50 0.86 0.00 0.16 0.27
  With no one 0.02 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00
  Spouse was smoking 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 1.00
  No one was smoking 0.08 0.02 0.94 1.00 0.00
  Angry 0.64 0.14 0.41 0.59 0.34
  Happy 0.01 0.52 0.05 0.00 0.31