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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 Apr;51(4):663–670. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001839

Table 3.

Strength of an Unmeasured confounder needed to change the interpretation of significance for those life events identified as significanta

Difference in Prevalence of Unmeasured Confounder between participants experiencing life event and those not experiencing life event.
0.01 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5
Wave 2 to Wave 3
 Had First Child β = −30 hrs/wk β = −3 hrs/wk β = −1.5 hrs/wk β = −1 hrs/wk β = −0.6 hrs/wk
Wave 3 to Wave 4
 Had First Child β = −54 hrs/wk β = −5.4 hrs/wk β = −2.7 hrs/wk β = −1.8 hrs/wk β = −1.08 hrs/wk
 Got Married β = −44 hrs/wk β = −4.4 hrs/wk β = −2.2 hrs/wk β = −1.47 hrs/wk β = −0.88 hrs/wk
 Left Parental Home β = −9 hrs/wk β = −0.9 hrs/wk β = −0.45 hrs/wk β = −0.3 hrs/wk β = −0.18 hrs/wk
a

The numbers in cells represent the regression coefficient an unmeasured confounder would need to have with MVPA (hrs/wk) to change the significance of the effect estimates for each life event