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Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2016 Dec 18;112(3):442–453. doi: 10.1111/add.13684

Table 4.

Standardized parameters from the models with baseline, ascending and descending limb data together in the No-alcohol and Alcohol groups

Models	Latent mean Parameter Estimates		Path Coefficient Estimates

	No-Alcohol	Alcohol	No-Alcohol	Alcohol
Multi-group (alcohol/no-alcohol) Covariance Factor Models	Ascending

A1: Strict invariance	−.21	−.21	-	-
A2: Asc. & desc. post-drink factor mean	−.4^**^b	.089^b	-	-

	Descending

A1: Strict invariance	−.61^***	−.61^***	-	-
A2: Asc. & desc. post-drink factor mean	−.71^***^a	−.46^***^a	-	-

A2: Asc. vs. desc. limb	a	b	-	-

Multi-group (alcohol/no-alcohol) Longitudinal Factor Models	Ascending		Base-to-Ascending

B1: Strict invariance	−.2	−.2	.98^***	.98^***

B2: Asc. & desc. post-drink factor mean	−.48^***^b	.09^b	1^***	.85^***

B4: Base-to-asc. & asc.-to-desc. path coefficient	−.61^***^b	.06^b	1^***^a	.94^***^a

	Descending		Ascending-to-Descending

B1: Strict invariance	−.44^***	−.44^***	.91^***	.91^***

B2: Asc. & desc. post-drink factor mean	−.35^*	−.51^***	.88^***	.91^***

B4: Base-to-asc. & asc.-to-desc. path coefficient	−.25	−.45^***	.84^***	.95^***

Note. Under the Models column, parameter are listed which are freely estimated across groups. Note that the parameters listed in each successive model also include parameters that are freed in previous steps. Significance levels represent whether estimated parameters are significantly different than zero:

p≤.05,

^**

p≤.01,

^***

p≤.001.

Significance levels for the t-tests comparing parameter estimates for the no-alcohol vs. alcohol groups and for the t-test comparing ascending versus descending limb factor means are indicated as,

p≤.05;

p≤.01.

Base = baseline; asc.= ascending limb; desc.= descending limb.