Table 4.

MSM results on the BRAiNS’data.

		Discrete model			Continuous model
Covariates	Path	Coefficient	Std. err	P value	Coefficient	Std. err	P value
Intercept	1 to 2	−4.1015	0.1904	< .01	−3.9794	0.1860	< .01
	1 to 3	−6.5050	0.4512	< .01	−8.2161	1.5140	< .01
	1 to 4	−4.5632	0.1948	< .01	−4.7157	0.2137	< .01
	2 to 1	−1.0981	0.5537	0.05	−1.6062	0.5032	< .01
	2 to 3	−0.7283	0.3605	0.04	−1.4084	0.2777	< .01
	2 to 4	−1.9591	0.5334	< .01	−2.4982	0.9356	< .01
	3 to 4	−2.3889	0.4331	< .01	−2.2894	0.3451	< .01
Baseline age	1 to 2	0.0445	0.0114	< .01	0.0463	0.0109	< .01
	1 to 3	0.0944	0.0233	< .01	0.1107	0.0538	0.04
	1 to 4	0.0946	0.0105	< .01	0.0921	0.0111	< .01
	2 to 1	−0.0814	0.0397	0.04	−0.0742	0.0371	0.05
	2 to 3	−0.0169	0.0217	0.44	0.0129	0.0166	0.44
	2 to 4	0.0232	0.0306	0.45	−0.0129	0.0633	0.84
	3 to 4	0.0677	0.0239	< .01	0.0464	0.0185	0.01
APOE4	1 to 2	0.4162	0.1692	0.01	0.3869	0.1699	0.02
	1 to 3	0.7573	0.3445	0.03	1.2111	1.4112	0.39
	1 to 4	−0.1593	0.1806	0.38	−0.2357	0.2067	0.25
	2 to 1	−0.6589	0.5953	0.27	−0.5767	0.5782	0.32
	2 to 3	0.1203	0.2823	0.67	0.1701	0.2329	0.46
	2 to 4	−0.4717	0.4217	0.26	−1.3741	2.0358	0.50
	3 to 4	0.1371	0.2916	0.64	0.1163	0.2400	0.63

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