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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 Jul 5;42(9):1704–1714. doi: 10.1111/acer.13810

Table 3.

Series of Binary Logistic Regression Backwards Elimination Analyses where Each Group is Compared with the Other 3 Groups as well as Group 2 vs. Group 3 (Odds Ratio with 95% Confidence intervals)

Out Group Group 1 (Low-Risk Drinking) (n=100, 15.1%) Group 2 (High-Risk Drinking) (n=93, 14.0%) Group 3 (Problem Drinking) (n=192, 29.0%) Group 4 (Abstinent) (n=278, 41.9%) Group 2 (High-Risk Drinking) vs. Group 3 (Problem Drinking)*
Baseline Variables
Demography
Age (years) 0.76 [0.62, 0.92]b 1.38 [1.16, 1.64]c
Race (% EA) 0.51 [0.34, 0.76]c 1.74 (1.17, 2.58)b 0.42 [0.23, 0.78]b
Marital status (% widowed) 6.89 (1.68, 28.24)b
Alcohol Characteristics
SRE first 5 (SRE5) 0.76 [0.60, 0.96]a
SRE total (SRET) 0.72 [0.56, 0.92]b 1.57 [1.17, 2.10]b
Usual drinks/occasion (6 months) 1.44 [1.11, 1.67]b 1.79 [1.45, 2.20]c 0.58 [0.49, 0.69]c
Usual frequency/week (6 months)
Number alcohol problems (lifetime) 1.42 [1.16, 1.73]c
Ever alcohol treatment(% yes) 0.50 [0.31, 0.79]b 0.40 [0.25, 0.63]c 2.32 [1.52, 3.54]c
Drug characteristics
Number drug types ever used 0.64 [0.50, 0.84]c
Number drug problems (lifetime)
Mental health and personality
Number conduct items to age 15
Zuckerman Sensation Seeking 1.43 [1.18, 1.73]c 1.42 [1.08, 1.88]a
Pseudo R2 .13 .07 .17 .22 .12
a

p<.05,

b

p<.01,

c

p<.001 for the results of the original backwards elimination analysis.

*

Dependent Variable here = Group 3 (Problem Drinking).

Abbreviations are defined in Tables 1 and 2.