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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2017 Aug 12;2(8):664–672. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007

Table 2.

Tests of fixed effects and tests of simple slopes for brain-behavior analyses.

Response Variable MSEL VDQ MSEL VDQ MSEL VDQ Receptive Adv. Receptive Adv. Receptive Adv.

Predictor Variable Thalamus Amygdala Caudate Nucleus Thalamus Amygdala Caudate Nucleus

F p/q a F p/q a F p/q a F p/q a F p/q a F p/q a

Sex of Infant 2.21 0.138 1.55 0.214 1.64 0.200 0.03 0.870 0.07 0.794 0.01 0.926
Mullen NVDQ 120.64 <.0001 123.42 <.0001 122.72 <.0001 0.14 0.706 0.07 0.792 0.07 0.790
Site 1.64 0.179 1.62 0.184 1.71 0.164 7.45 <.0001 6.52 0.0003 7.40 <.0001
Age 0.06 0.809 0.03 0.871 0.12 0.734 0.21 0.644 0.10 0.752 0.19 0.662
TCV 1.06 0.303 2.41 0.121 1.20 0.274 0.31 0.575 0.80 0.371 0.05 0.816
Subcortical Volume 0.10 0.748 0.13 0.718 0.31 0.577 0.38 0.539 0.04 0.840 2.38 0.123
Group 3.61 0.013 4.51 0.004 3.72 0.011 5.54 0.001 3.00 0.030 2.71 0.044
Subcortical × Group 2.21 0.087 2.79 0.080+ 1.70 0.166 4.90 0.004* 2.43 0.064 2.21 0.086

Tests of Group Effect t q

HR-ASD 1.58 0.230
HR-LD -3.07 0.009*
HR-Neg 0.17 0.865
LR-Neg 0.61 0.726

Notes: MSEL VDQ, MSEL Verbal Developmental Quotient; Receptive Adv, Receptive Advantage Score

a

p-values are reported for tests of fixed effects; q-values are reported for interaction terms.

*

q-value < .05

+

uncorrected p-value < .05