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. 2016 Mar-Apr;18(81):85–92. doi: 10.4103/1463-1741.178481

Table 3.

Linear random- and mixed-effects models of percentage mobility during sleep and sleep efficiency. Analysis of 83 sleep periods among 68 seamen on board 20 Royal Norwegian Navy vessels

Model components Percentage mobility during sleep (%) Sleep efficiency (%)


Random-effects model Mixed-effects model 1 Mixed-effects model 2a Random-effects model Mixed-effects model 1 Mixed-effects model 2a






β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE
Fixed effects
 Intercept 13.59* 0.82 13.13* 1.02 −0.93 5.57 86.63* 0.77 86.89* 1.14 98.93* 5.77
 Gender (0=male, 1=female) −2.80b 1.63 −1.08 1.98
 Coffee drinker (0=no, 1=yes) 3.04* 1.15 3.89* 1.11 −0.91 1.41
 Nicotine user (0=no, 1=yes) −2.77* 1.13 −2.75* 1.09 1.60 1.39
 Sleeping hours (0=night, 1=day) 1.70b 1.16 1.81b 1.12 −1.59 1.44
 Equivalent noise level 0.21* 0.10 −0.19b 0.10
 Noise events per hour
 1.1 or more 3.05* 1.12 −3.45* 1.33
 0.5-1.1 2.94* 1.12 −2.75* 1.34
 <0.5 Reference Reference
Random effectsc
 Within-worker variance 15.10 2.63 16.66 2.46 13.32 2.42 21.41 3.79 21.83 4.00 21.95 3.98
 Between-vessel variance 9.30 4.06 7.42 5.06 2.77 6.12 3.87 5.77 3.97 2.29 2.87
 Percentage of variance explained by the fixed effects 1.3 24.9 −0.3 12.0

*P < 0.05, aThe variable “mean LAmax of noise events” was also entered in the mixed-effects model 2, but were not retained (P > 0.2) in the final model, bP ≤ 0.2: The variable was retained in the model, cBetween-worker variance could not be calculated. SE = Standard error