Table 3.
Associations among empirical demand indices, derived demand indices based on the two-part mixed effects model, and smoking variables.
| Correlations | ||||||||||
| Demand indices |
Intensity | Omax | Pmax | Breakpoint | α | CPD | ||||
| Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | |||
| Empirical intensity |
— | 0.92*** | 0.31*** | 0.30*** | −0.03 | −0.12*** | 0.09*** | 0.33*** | 0.24*** | 0.61*** |
| Derived intensity |
— | 0.30*** | 0.30*** | −0.07*** | −0.13*** | 0.06** | 0.34*** | 0.24*** | 0.62*** | |
| Empirical Omax |
— | 0.82*** | 0.48*** | 0.37*** | 0.51*** | 0.74*** | −0.49*** | 0.35*** | ||
| Derived Omax |
— | 0.41*** | 0.41*** | 0.44*** | 0.82*** | −0.53*** | 0.38*** | |||
| Empirical Pmax |
— | 0.41*** | 0.59*** | 0.44*** | −0.52*** | 0.01 | ||||
| Derived Pmax | — | 0.30*** | 0.53*** | −0.80*** | 0.02 | |||||
| Breakpoint (empirical) |
— | 0.45*** | −0.40*** | 0.10*** | ||||||
| Breakpoint (derived) |
— | −0.71*** | 0.40*** | |||||||
|
α (derived) |
— | −0.03 | ||||||||
| CPD | — | |||||||||
| Comparing two nicotine dependence groups (high vs. low) in terms of demand indices | ||||||||||
| Intensity | Omax | Pmax | Breakpoint | α | ||||||
| Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | Empirical | Derived | |||
|
aT-test or log- rank test statistics |
15.1*** | 16.4*** | 90.2*** | 90.8*** | 8.1** | 2.8 | 30.3*** | 10.8*** | 0.7 | |
Note: CPD = cigarettes per day.
p < .05,
p < .01,
p < .001
T-test was used for intensity and derived breakpoint, and log-rank test was used for Omax, Pmax, and empirical breakpoint.