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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 3.

Hierarchical linear models for Actigraph measured sedentary and physical activity behaviours

Sedentary behaviour
(min/day)
LPA (min/day) LMPA (min/day) MPA (min/day) VPA (min/day)





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

Intercept, β00 384.62 (7.70)*** 69.33 (4.04)*** 25.93 (2.58)*** 13.03 (1.28)*** 0.18 (0.08)*
Age, β01 0.34 (0.60) 0.42 (0.41) 0.25 (0.17) 0.11 (0.15) 0.00 (0.01)
Male, β02 26.89 (17.95) −8.22 (10.77) 6.25 (5.43) 4.19 (3.02) 0.50 (0.26)
White, β03 −9.64 (20.57) −21.38 (19.89) −5.52 (10.71) 3.14 (2.17) 0.00 (0.16)
Education, β04 3.68 (10.72) −2.51 (5.95) −1.27 (2.63) 1.05 (1.78) 0.07 (0.09)
BMI, β05 −1.46 (0.98) 0.63 (0.51) 0.35 (0.22) −0.23 (0.18) −0.01 (0.01)
Time 2, π1 −14.59 (5.45)* 5.87 (2.92) 4.11 (1.43)** 3.12 (1.03)** 0.29 (0.16)

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

Between-subject, r0 3418.24 [303.85]*** 938.64 [288.98]*** 423.76 [574.06]*** 90.93 [249.07]*** 0.09 [75.24]
Δ(time 2−time1), r1 268.38 [76.13] 73.24 [75.51] 35.20 [88.16]* 12.95 [80.44] 0.99 [145.26]***
Within-subject, e 875.13 254.00 52.25 29.59 0.41

Sedentary behaviour: <100 cpm; LPA: 100–759 cpm; LMPA: 760–1951 cpm; MPA: 1952–5724 cpm; VPA: ≥5725 cpm.

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001.

BMI, body mass index; LMPA, lifestyle moderate-intensity physical activity; LPA, light-intensity physical activity; MPA, moderate-intensity physical activity; VPA, vigorous-intensity physical activity.

b, unstandarised beta.