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Nonlinear effects for age at examination and trends by exposure group estimated by smoothed terms
| TOCE | Untreated decay (permanent teeth) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoothing Terms (GAMs) | edf | p | edf | p |
| Age at exam | 2.94 | < .001 | 3.85 | < .001 |
| Visit among unexposed | 2.30 | < .001 | 1.00 | 0.02 |
| Visit among exposed | 3.46 | < .001 | 1.12 | < .001 |
Note: increased magnitude of effective degrees of freedom (edf) indicates greater departures from linearity
TOCE total observed caries experience, GAM generalized additive models
