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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Promot. 2016 Aug 8;32(1):198–204. doi: 10.1177/0890117116661157

Table 3.

Amount of Deposits and Percentage Weight Loss per Week in Verified Long Contracts Who Put Deposits Down.a,b

Beta 95% CI
Type of deposit
 Anticharity −0.09c −0.14 to −0.04
 Charity −0.01 −0.08 to 0.06
Friends Reference
Stakes per week (in $10s) −0.01d −0.02 to −0.01
Has supporters on website 0.03 −0.02 to 0.09
Has friends on website 0.00 −0.10 to 0.09

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

a

n = 624.

b

Model also controls for age and sex. Participants were located in various locations (online) from 2013 to 2014.

c

P = 0.001.

d

P < 0.001.