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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Oral Sci. 2014 Sep 3;122(5):346–352. doi: 10.1111/eos.12147

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Structural equation model of the pathway between birth group and Infant MS presence at 18-20 months.

The model involves four stages (in causal order): 1) socio-demographics (caregiver age, education, race, marital status) at birth; 2) birth group (VLBW, NBW); 3) latent variables for biology and behavior; caregiver MS levels at 18-20 months; 4) infant MS presence at 18-20 months. Solid arrows with *, denote the presence of a statistically significant (p <0.05) relationship. Dotted arrows denote non-significant (p >0.05) relationship. Solid arrow with † denote trend towards significance with p <0.10. Estimated coefficients with the standard errors for the estimates (in the parentheses) are displayed. The latent variables (FBiol and FBehav) were derived by using confirmatory factor analysis.