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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychology. 2014 Dec 15;29(3):335–343. doi: 10.1037/neu0000159

Table 1. Association with change in global cognition from the models without mixture (K=1).

Model 1 Estimate (SE, p) Model 2 Estimate (SE, p) Model 3 Estimate (SE, p)
Fixed Effects on baseline level (intercept)
Age at baseline (α1) - -.024 (.002, <.001) -.022 (.002, <.001)
Male sex (α2) - -.054 (.035, .120) -.074 (.034, .030)
Education (α3) - .034 (.005, <.001) .033 (.004, <.001)
τ tangle density - - -.016 (.002, <.001)
Macroscopic infarcts - - -.067 (.033, .042)
Cortical Lewy bodies - - -.027 (.049, .586)
Hippocampal sclerosis - - -.099 (.057, .083)
Fixed Effects on decline (slope)
Age at baseline (β1) - -.002 (.0001, .006) -.002 (.0008, .027)
Male sex (β2) - .006 (.013, .639) -.004 (.012, .728)
Education (β3) - .003 (.002, .077) .003 (.002, .040)
τ tangle density - - -.006 (.001, <.001)
Macroscopic infarcts - - .005 (.011, .664)
Cortical Lewy bodies - - -.024 (.016, .138)
Hippocampal sclerosis - - -.007 (.018, .716)
Fixed Effects on decline (quadratic)
Age at baseline (β4) - -.0003 (.0001, <.001) -.0002 (.0001, <.001)
Male sex (β5) - .0005 (.0007, .492) .0005 (.0007, .476)
Education (β6) - -.0002 (.0001, .032) -.0002 (.0001, .039)
τ tangle density - - -.0004 (.0001, <.001)
Macroscopic infarcts - - -.003 (.001, <.001)
Cortical Lewy bodies - - -.006 (.001, <.001)
Hippocampal sclerosis - - -.003 (.001, .004)
Random Effects
Mean Intercept (μ0) -.003 (.018, .863) .001 (.020, .944) .134 (.027, <.001)
 Variance ( σ12) .219 (.012, <.001) .173 (.010, <.001) .163 (.010, <.001)
Mean Linear (μ1) -.034 (.006, <.001) -.032 (.007, <.001) .006 (.009, .497)
 Variance ( σ22) .018 (.001, <.001) .017 (.001, <.001) .012 (.001, <.0001)
 Covariance (σ12) .017 (.003, <.001) .010 (.002, <.001) .006 (.002, .004)
Mean Quadratic (μ2) -.010 (.0003, <.001) -.011 (.0005, <.001) -.006 (.0007, <.001)
Residuals Variance .088 (.002, <.001) .087 (.002, <.001) .086 (.002, <.001)

SE: Standard error.