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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Sports Med. 2014 May 13;48(13):1043–1047. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-093520

Table 2.

Hierarchical linear models for activPAL measured sedentary and physical activity behaviours

Sitting/lying (min/day) Standing (min/day) Stepping (min/day) Steps/day Sit-to-stand transitions





Fixed effect b (SE) b (SE) b (SE) b (SE) b (SE)

Intercept, β00 353.79 (9.69)*** 97.19 (8.77)*** 41.86 (3.45)*** 3762.62 (284.17)*** 28.66 (1.29)***
Age, β01 −0.34 (0.70) 1.11 (0.77) 0.30 (0.26) 28.36 (23.84) 0.16 (0.11)
Male, β02 44.34 (22.32) −17.22 (19.33) 7.65 (8.89) 414.06 (745.38) −0.37 (2.74)
White, β03 16.63 (34.15) −40.33 (37.13) −17.17 (17.27) −1533.30 (1417.49) 1.34 (3.00)
Education, β04 24.25 (15.66) −16.67 (18.14) −4.00 (4.34) −323.43 (375.03) −2.42 (1.82)
BMI, β05 −3.68 (1.72)* 2.57 (1.70) 0.19 (0.36) 12.43 (32.57) −0.09 (0.18)
Time 2, π1 −16.48 (6.71)* 7.76 (5.97) 7.86 (2.55)** 838.09 (235.06)*** 3.06 (0.94)**

Random effect Variance 2] Variance 2] Variance 2] Variance 2] Variance 2]

Between-subject, r0 74.16 [315.37]*** 67.61 [328.29]*** 25.91 [278.70]*** 4 246 860.05 [221.11]*** 94.96 [283.56]***
Δ(time 2−time1), r1 19.62 [75.51] 17.87 [76.03] 7.64 [76.05] 479 478.57 [75.64] 7.64 [75.53]
Within-subject, e 36.57 32.42 13.86 1 639 445.63 26.48
*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001.

BMI, body mass index; b, unstandarised beta.