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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2015 May 11;30(2):279–285. doi: 10.1037/pag0000024

Table 3.

Relation of Demographic Variables to Retest Effects Estimated from a Change Point Model with a Composite Measure of Global Cognition

Effect Estimate (95% confidence interval)
Intercept
 Mean 0.196 (0.157,0.238)
 Age −0.029 (−0.033,−0.025)
 Education 0.053 (0.046,0.06)
 Male gender −0.084 (−0.141,−0.02)
 Black race −0.294 (−0.346,−0.241)
Initial slope
 Mean 0.348 (0.254,0.468)
 Age 0.005 (−0.003,0.013)
 Education year 0.004 (−0.008,0.018)
 Male gender 0.006 (−0.1,0.127)
 Black race −0.077 (−0.173,0.011)
Change-point
 Mean 0.448 (0.358,0.536)
 Age −0.005 (−0.01,0)
 Education, years 0.004 (−0.005,0.012)
 Male gender −0.07 (−0.144,0.003)
 Black race 0.027 (−0.045,0.1)
Slope after change point
 Mean −0.079 (−0.09,−0.067)
 Age −0.006 (−0.007,−0.005)
 Education, years −0.003 (−0.005,−0.001)
 Male gender 0.004 (−0.014,0.021)
 Black race 0.022 (0.008,0.037)
Random effects
 Intercept 0.18 (0.163,0.199)
 Initial slope −0.049 (−0.077,−0.024)
 Change point 0.005 (0.002,0.007)
 Slope after change point −0.016 (−0.024,−0.009)
 End of learning phase (change-point) 0.044 (0.032,0.056)
 Error

Note. The mean represents the effect when all covariates are zero.