Table 4.

Parameter estimates, standard errors, and p-values for three joint models

	Joint Model 1			Joint Model 2			Joint Model 3
	Estimate	Std. err	p-Value	Estimate	Std. err	p-Value	Estimate	Std. err	p-Value
Age	0.01	0.01	0.015	0.01	0.01	0.341	0.02	0.01	0.020
Female	−0.17	0.13	0.208	−0.12	0.17	0.497	−0.14	0.18	0.433
Black	−0.08	0.11	0.483	−0.07	0.14	0.611	−0.10	0.15	0.511
Educatlor	0.00	0.02	0.963	0.00	0.03	0.873	0.02	0.03	0.570
Living alore	0.19	0.11	0.086	0.32	0.14	0.028	0.37	0.16	0.017
Wks from diagnosis	−0.02	0.01	0.004	−0.03	0.01	0.000	−0.03	0.01	0.000
Site (VA)	−0.20	0.14	0.143	−0.15	0.18	0.378	−0.24	0.19	0.193
Control	−0.02	0.10	0.830	−0.03	0.13	0.799	−0.04	0.14	0.772
Recurrent cancer	0.05	0.16	0.727	0.21	0.20	0.298	0.18	0.21	0.406
Chemotherapy	0.26	0.12	0.023	0.34	0.15	0.021	0.43	0.16	0.008
Radiation	−0.13	0.13	0.318	−0.11	0.16	0.501	−0.24	0.17	0.166
QoL level	−0.02	0.00	0.001				−0.03	0.01	0.002
Qol change				−1.86	0.34	<0.001	−1.68	0.34	<0.001
AIC		16,143.53			16,118.25			16,108.32
BIC		16,296.67			16,271.38			16,265.71
−Log.lik		−8035.764			−8023.123			−8017.16