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. 2021 Oct 6;23(10):e27153. doi: 10.2196/27153

Table 2.

Linear growth models for the current BMI of 1170 users of an eating disorder community on Reddit.


Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Fixed effect estimates (SE)

Intercept −0.473 (0.025) −0.165 (0.013) −0.169 (0.013) −0.165 (0.013)

Time a −0.074 (0.004) −0.072 (0.004) −0.087 (0.005)

Time×baseline current BMI interactionb −0.044 (0.004) −0.043 (0.004)

Time×activity interactionb −0.118 (0.020)
Random effects variance

Intercept 0.512 0.068 0.068 0.069

Residual 0.829 0.250 0.251 0.250

Slope 0.011 0.009 0.009
Goodness-of-fit measures

Akaike information criterion 15,172.918 10,504.541 10,387.654 10,353.948

Bayesian information criterion 15,192.584 10,543.871 10,433.540 10,406.389

Log likelihood −7583.459 −5246.271 −5186.827 −5168.974

a—: not applicable.

bMain effects of baseline current BMI and activity were excluded from their models as their inclusion lowered the model fit.