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. 2021 Mar 2;11(3):311. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11030311

Table 6.

Parameter estimation (βij) for each of the criterion variables.

Criteria Variables Predictor Parameter p Effect Size Observations
FAB total score Mental age estimated from the vocabulary score 0.997 0.01 0.376 AIC = 124.367 Outliers: participant number 11 (Cook’s distance = 0.242)
Mean of the weighted path length of the DMN network −8.361 0.034 0.241
Variables excluded Step number 1: Number of communities in DMN partial; Number of triangles in the subnetworks DMN partial, DMN ventral, Sensoriomotor and Visual; SD of the path length of DMN ventral, Small-world in DMN ventral; Number of communities in Sensoriomotor network; mean and SD of the path lengths of Visual network; Small-world of the visual network, Global clustering coefficient of visual network; complexity of the visual network and Mental age derived from matrices subtest.
Vocabulary subtest score Mental age estimated from the vocabulary score 5.156 <0.001 0.950 AIC = 112.556 Outliers: participant number 16 (Cook’s distance = 0.388) and 19 (Cook’s distance = 0.264)
Mean of the weighted path length of the sensorimotor network −15.069 0.004 0.026
Small-worldness of the visual network 25.226 0.029 0.013
Complexity of the ventral DMN −13.281 0.046 0.010
Variables excluded Step number 1: Number of communities, Mean and SD of the path lengths and number of triangles of DMN partial; Mean and SD of the path lengths, density and Small-world of the DMN anterior; Number of communities of DMN Ventral; Number of communities of Sensoriomotor and Visual networks.
Step number 2: Density and Small-world of DMN partial; Number of triangles of DMN anterior; Complexity and Number of triangles of DMN ventral; Number of triangles of Sensoriomoto network a Mental Age derived from Matrices Test.
Step number 3: Mean and SD of path lengths of Visual network; Global clustering coefficient, Complexity and Number of triangles of Visual network.
Matrices subtest score Number of communities in the visual network 14.581 0.004 0.562 AIC = 168.857 Outliers: participant number 7 (Cook’s distance = 0.432)
Number of communities in the DMN networks −24.149 0.042 0.247
Variables excluded Step number 1: Mean of the path lengths, Density, Small-world and Number of triangles of DMN partial; SD of path lengths, Density, Small-world, Complexity and Number of Triangles of DMN anterior; all the indicators (except Density) of the DMN ventral; Number of communities, Complexity and Number of triangles of Sensoriomotor network; Mean and SD of the path lengths, Small-world, Complexity and Number of triangles of Visual network.
Step number 2: Mental age derived from vocabulary and matrices tests.

No statistically significant differences were found in the observed distribution of complex indicators or any other variables (including the criteria variables) or sex.