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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Jul;46(7):2501–2507. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2756-y

Table 3.

Estimates for Exploratory Predictor of Developmental Trajectories: Number of Words Produced

Fixed Effect Receptive Language Expressive Language Nonverbal Cognition Adaptive Behavior

β SE p β SE p β SE p β SE p




Number of Words
 Intercept (mean) 69.33 1.77 < .001* 75.99 1.48 < .001* 40.41 1.18 < .001* 79.05 0.77 < .001*
 Age of first words −0.36 0.26 .171 −0.33 0.22 .131 −0.25 0.17 .163 −0.02 0.11 .834
 Number of words 0.19 0.05 < .001* 0.20 0.04 < .001* 0.08 0.03 .011* 0.11 0.02 < .001*
Slope
 Age (rate of change) 0.61 0.07 < .001* 0.17 0.07 .021* 0.15 0.05 .006* 0.02 0.03 .516
 Age of first words <0.01 0.01 .980 <0.01 0.01 .762 <0.01 0.01 .611 0.01 <0.01 .044*
 Number of words <0.01 <0.01 .319 <0.01 <0.01 .214 <−0.01 <0.01 .237 <−0.01 <0.01 .037*

Note. Intercept reflects a chronological age of 45 months. All predictors were grand-mean centered.