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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2018 Feb;46(2):319–330. doi: 10.1007/s10802-017-0277-6

Table 1.

Descriptive information for substance use at all waves (non-users excluded from continuous variables)

Alcohol Use
Original metric
Log transformed
n % M SD M SD Skew Kurtosis
W1 10 2.58 0.89 0.74 −0.54 1.04 −.31 −1.24
W2 39 10.46 4.46 9.10 −0.02 1.72 .38 .63
W3 80 21.68 5.90 14.63 0.34 1.52 .85 .26
W4 106 28.89 13.63 19.03 1.68 1.46 .06 −1.00
W5 140 39.44 29.01 53.75 1.97 1.74 .22 −.78
W6 173 49.86 42.48 73.12 2.47 1.77 −.12 −.77
W7 209 59.54 236.88 361.89 4.22 1.84 −.29 −.80

Marijuana Use

Original metric
Log transformed
n % M SD M SD Skew Kurtosis

W1* 0 0
W2* 7 1.88 4.86 3.18 1.36 .78 −.64 .26
W3 31 8.40 8.74 10.52 1.58 1.13 .12 −.88
W4 45 12.26 26.13 51.14 1.91 1.65 .53 −.82
W5 53 14.93 49.79 98.08 2.30 1.79 .59 −.55
W6 89 25.65 38.67 81.88 2.15 1.68 .61 −.40
W7 164 46.72 94.61 126.79 2.90 2.20 .00 −1.65

Note. W = Wave;

*

Not included in analysis because of low endorsement; n = number of subjects who used alcohol at each wave; Original metric (alcohol) = average number of drinks per drinking episode × number of drinking episodes per year; Original metric (marijuana) = number times smoked marijuana in past year.