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Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 Sep 8;99:104–111. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.035

Table 2.

Dataset dependent stability, average descriptive statistics, and within-participant diurnal differences of consecutive sCRP samples

	Two-day stability				Diurnal difference
	M1~M2	E1~E2	Non-transformed mean (SD) pg/mL		M_avg ~ E_avg

Datest	r	r	M_avg	E_avg	t
SLWD	.61^***	.42^**	4790.61(4483.70)	3515.53(2783.45)	2.70^**
SPWD	.60^***	.52^***	4533.65(4318.90)	4203.72(4504.46)	2.67^*
SMI	.38^***	.27^*	4413.49(3811.08)	3894.53(3847.18)	0.97
SW	.63^***	.76^***	7705.30(3811.08)	7085.81(8839.31)	1.60
RLWD	.36^***	.62^***	6607.33(9655.34)	6076.64(10658.83)	1.31
RPWD	.35^***	.70^***	6607.33(9655.34)	8314.64(14741.74)	1.31
RMI	.38^***	.70^***	9247.93(12392.69)	9179.78(12392.69)	1.11
RW	.58^***	.78^***	13578.53(22835.00)	12350.90(21888.21)	1.49

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001

Abbreviations: E1, evening 1; E2, evening 2; M1, morning 1; M2, morning 2; Mavg, average morning; Eavg, average evening; RLWD, relaxed list-wise deletion; I, relaxed multiple imputation; RPWD, relaxed pair-wise deletion; RW, relaxed winsorization; sCRP, salivary C-reactive protein; SD, standard deviation; SLWD, strict list-wise deletion; SMI, strict multiple imputation; SPWD, strict pair-wise deletion; SW, strict winsorization.