Table 5.

Pause duration and pause number cross classified multilevel model per levels and the proportion of variance explained by the regression per level (R²).

Estimate		Post. S.D	p	95% C.I		R2 [95% CI]
				L 2,5%	U 2,5%
Within-letters level variables
Pause Duration within letters						0.24 [0.10–0.41]
Strokes	−0.038	0.164	0.496	−0.240	0.252
Script1	0.191	0.171	0.213	−0.220	0.331
Script2	0.092	0.108	0.048	−0.010	0.320
Pause Number within letters						0.44 [0.11–0.75]
Strokes	0.227	0.514	0.275	−0.414	1.467
Script1	−0.837	0.566	0.000*	−1.828	−0.127
Script2	−0.500	0.197	0.013*	−0.771	−0.097
Between-letters level variables
Pause duration between letters						0.44 [0.04–0.97]
Strokes	−0.008	0.074	0.447	−0.154	0.154
Script1	0.015	0.113	0.447	−0.266	0.235
Script2	0.004	0.100	0.489	−0.222	0.200
Pause number between letters						0.54 [0.08–0.91]
Strokes	0.036	0.416	0.453	−0.832	0.881
Script1	−0.154	0.670	0.414	−1.256	1.276
Script2	0.219	0.451	0.314	−0.634	1.161
Between subjects level variables
Pause duration between subjects						0.74 [0.48–1.00]
Grade	−0.026	0.021	0.089	−0.069	0.016
Group	0.006	0.027	0.414	−0.040	0.065
Score in HWF	−0.012	0.003	0.000*	−0.017	−0.006
Pause number between subjects						0.78 [0.54–0.97]
Grade	−0.133	0.056	0.017*	−0.238	−0.009
Group	−0.071	0.067	0.115	−0.212	0.056
Score in HWF	−0.033	0.005	0.000*	−0.045	−0.025

CI = confidence interval; L = lower; U = upper; Script1 = contrast between cursive vs. lower and upper case; Script2 = contrast between lower case vs. cursive and upper case; HWF = handwriting fluency (Alphabet task). *p < 0.05.