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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Behav Med. 2009 Oct;38(2):94–104. doi: 10.1007/s12160-009-9135-2

Table 3.

Discriminators of weight-loss maintainer and treatment-seeking obese (TSO-1) based on Bayesian model averaging analysis

WLM vs. TSO-1
Pr. OR 95% CI E/V
Dietary restraint 1.00 1.82 (1.49, 2.23) 5.77
Disinhibition 1.00 0.62 (0.49, 0.79) 3.94
Breakfast 0.15 0.86 (0.34, 2.17) 0.31
CES-D <0.01
Fast-food <0.01
Restaurant 0.13 0.97 (0.82, 1.16) 0.30
Self-weighing <0.01
High-fat foods in home 0.16 0.97 (0.80, 1.17) 0.32
Low-fat foods in home 0.08 1.01 (0.92, 1.10) 0.21
Total calories expended in PA/week (per log101,000 cal.) 1.00 1.99 (1.00, 5.14) 1.43
Total pieces of exercise equipment in the home 0.02 1.00 (0.97, 1.04) 0.12
TVs in home 0.93 0.68 (0.40, 1.14) 1.48
TV hours/week (10 h/week) 1.00 0.47 (0.24, 0.92) 2.20
Friend encouragement for eating healthy <0.01
Family encouragement for eating healthy 1.00 0.72 (0.61, 0.85) 3.91
Friend participate in PA 0.99 1.08 (1.00, 1.18) 1.69

Significant discriminators are indicated in italics

Pr. the posterior probability that the variable is a discriminator, OR odds ratio, E/V effect size = posterior mean/posterior standard deviation