Table 3.

MSM results on the NUN’s data.

		Discrete model			Continuous model
Covariates	Path	Coefficient	Std. err	P value	Coefficient	Std. err	P value
Intercept	1 to 2	−2.9425	0.1512	< .01	−2.8417	0.1515	< .01
	1 to 3	−3.9931	0.2213	< .01	−4.6231	0.3545	< .01
	1 to 4	−3.0251	0.1613	< .01	−3.8646	0.2856	< .01
	2 to 1	−1.1615	0.3001	< .01	−1.7183	0.2711	< .01
	2 to 3	−1.4880	0.2901	< .01	−1.8899	0.2428	< .01
	2 to 4	−0.6328	0.2429	< .01	−1.2368	0.2364	< .01
	3 to 4	−1.3189	0.1677	< .01	−1.6425	0.1382	< .01
Baseline age	1 to 2	0.1044	0.0171	< .01	0.0882	0.0168	< .01
	1 to 3	0.1405	0.0225	< .01	0.1277	0.0360	< .01
	1 to 4	0.0963	0.0186	< .01	0.0646	0.0321	0.04
	2 to 1	0.0101	0.0294	0.73	0.0100	0.0268	0.71
	2 to 3	0.0525	0.0254	0.04	0.0375	0.0183	0.04
	2 to 4	0.0161	0.0235	0.49	−0.0215	0.0246	0.38
	3 to 4	0.0632	0.0137	< .01	0.0364	0.0106	< .01
APOE4	1 to 2	0.5799	0.1940	< .01	0.4447	0.1968	0.02
	1 to 3	0.5064	0.2831	0.07	0.0403	0.7244	0.96
	1 to 4	0.3976	0.2191	0.07	0.3561	0.3711	0.34
	2 to 1	−0.6509	0.4233	0.12	−0.6053	0.3994	0.13
	2 to 3	0.5268	0.3066	0.09	0.4952	0.2611	0.06
	2 to 4	−0.2533	0.3018	0.40	−0.5631	0.3679	0.13
	3 to 4	0.0417	0.1661	0.80	0.0112	0.1331	0.93

P values in bold are statistically significant at p ≤ .05.