. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2018 May;32(3):309–319. doi: 10.1037/adb0000365

Table 3.

Results of equality tests of means for outcome variables assessed at wave 7 across BMI trajectory classes using the 3-step procedure

	Outcomes variables₁
Latent Trajectory Class	Number of drinking problems		Number of illicit drug problems		Nicotine dependence
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
“Normal”	.29	.44	.18	.12	.14	.09
“Overweight”	−.11	.99	−.21	.01	−.56	.12
“Obese”	−2.74	.65	−.31	.05	.51	.38
	Equality tests of means
	χ²		χ²		χ²
Overall test	16.78^***		13.07^***		21.71^***
“Normal” vs. “Overweight”	n.s.		normal > overweight, 10.79^**		normal > overweight, 18.52^***
“Normal” vs. “Obese”	normal > obese, 15.53^***		normal > obese, 13.07^***		n.s.
“Overweight” vs. “Obese”	overweight > obese, 4.41^*		n.s.		obese > overweight, 7.01^*

Note.

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001;

Reported means are based on the residuals from regression models that account for covariates. Results of equality tests of means for outcome variables when a 4-class solution is chosen are presented in Table S1.