Table 4.
Descriptive statistics for Lifetime Depression Index.
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| LDI | n | Mean | Median | Range | n | Mean | Median | Range | p-value |
| Major and/or Dysthymiaa | 38 | 5.26% | 2.40% | 0.18 - 34.57% | 16 | 7.40% | 2.55% | 0.19 –44.98% | .42 |
| DNOS | 36 | 2.96% | 1.30% | 0.09 – 18.32% | 12 | 3.62% | 2.20% | 0.11 – 16.37% | .63 |
| All Depressiona | 62 | 4.94% | 2.86% | 0.18 –34.57% | 25 | 6.48% | 2.10% | 0.13 –44.98% | .40 |
All of the models examining gender differences in the LDI violated the General Linear Model (GLM) assumption of normality; however, the coefficients are still the best, unbiased, efficient estimators among linear solutions.
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These models violated the GLM assumption of constant variance. Log transforming the data corrected the violations, and no gender differences remained in the LDI among the log-transformed data.