Sentences with phrase «other predictor variables»

The hypothesis that nation attachment would account for variance in acculturation over and above the other predictor variables was examined with a hierarchical linear model (HLM), where participants (Level 1) were nested in their country of origin (Level 2).

However, there was not a strong multicollinearity between velocity and our other predictor variables (tolerance values for velocity: amphibians = 0.51, mammals = 0.49, birds = 0.52, values differ due to the use of different predictor variable subsets).

Not exact matches

Indeed, mind - minded parenting was a better predictor of secure attachment than were any other variables, including «responsive, sensitive parenting» (Meins et al 2001).

Multivariate analyses were performed with logistic regression for outcome variables with paternal depression and other covariates as predictors.

In place of reporting probit coefficients, we report the marginal effect of the variable on the award probability, which is the change in the award probability due to each predictor separately, with other variables evaluated at their mean values.

In their analysis, NORC researchers Nick Rabkin and Eric Hedberg test and ultimately confirm the validity of an assumption made with prior SPPA data, that participation in arts lessons and classes is the most significant predictor of arts participation later in life, even after controlling for other variables.

In addition, studies show that a student's ability to understand fractions in fifth grade is also a predictor of long - term math achievement in high school, even after controlling for IQ, reading ability, and other variables.

In other words, this particular prediction model can not account for 26 % of the cause of current ELA 8th grade scores, «all other things considered» (i.e., the predictor variables that are so highly correlated with test scores in the first place).

No other independent variable is the top - model predictor for more than one education success measure.

Looking across the totality of the evidence, what we see is that the climate variables tend to be weaker predictors of security troubles than other factors, like ethnic divisions, failed states, war in neighboring states that spills over, etc..

In response to Pounds» link to global warming they wrote, «Numerous other variables, including regional banana and beer production, were better predictors of these extinctions.

The five groups of variables on the left have been shown by Rogers and others researchers to be valid and reliable predictors of the rate of adoption of an innovation.

Other than religiosity, which was consistently related to fewer hookups, other personality variables were inconsistent predictors at Other than religiosity, which was consistently related to fewer hookups, other personality variables were inconsistent predictors at other personality variables were inconsistent predictors at best.

This study compared movie alcohol and alcohol marketing exposures with family factors and other variables as predictors of alcohol use onset separately from transition to binge drinking.

Second, we sought to determine whether the frequency of S allele carriers predicts cultural individualism and collectivism by conducting a multiple regression analysis with individualism — collectivism as the criterion variable and frequency of S allele carriers, as well as four other economic and health factors previously associated with individualism — collectivism including GDP per capita, inequity in the distribution of wealth (Gini index) as well as historical and contemporary pathogen prevalence as predictor variables (Fincher et al. 2008).

Baseline drinking status (ever vs never tried alcohol) did not predict attrition, but to account for attrition bias related to other variables, estimation was carried out after multiple imputation using the standard missing at random assumption (ie, missing data are assumed missing at random conditional on observed predictors included in the model).27 The imputation model included all the predictors in the alcohol models plus a number of auxiliary variables that were not of direct theoretical interest but were nonetheless predictive of missingness so as to improve the quality of the imputations and make the missing at random assumption more plausible.28

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in tablother ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in tablOther covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Indeed, mind - minded parenting was a better predictor of secure attachment than were any other variables, including «responsive, sensitive parenting» (Meins et al 2001).

For three other variables, life stress, difficult child temperament, and parent — child dysfunction as predictors of the CBCL externalizing scale, lower levels of pretreatment problems were associated with greater treatment gains.

Parental discipline appeared to be a weaker predictor than other family variables.

The second function showed external and internal mismatch, capitalized - on - transitions, and gradual separation contributed most to the synthetic predictor; being internally and externally mismatched were negatively related to the other two variables.

In the analysis of HbA1c levels, father's sense of helplessness and child's age remained significant predictors, even when regressed with the other variables (R2 = 0.37, P < 0.05; β = 0.43, P < 0.05; β = 0.30, P = 0.05, respectively).

Other variables (maternal parity, housing stability, hospitalization, perceived health status, employment, use of the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, and cigarette smoking; whether the mother was living with a partner; and infant gestational age, birth weight, need for transfer to an intensive care nursery, health insurance, special needs, health status as perceived by the mother, and age at the time of the survey) were included if the adjusted odds ratio differed from the crude odds ratio by at least 10 %, which is a well - accepted method of confounder selection when the decision of whether to adjust is unclear.42, 43 Any variable associated with both the predictor (depression) and the outcome (infant health services use, parenting practices, or injury - prevention measures) at P <.25, as suggested by Mickey and Greenland, 42 was also included.

As expected, the Positive profile was the strongest predictor of global marital satisfaction (B = 0.81, p <.001), explaining 37 % of unique variance above and beyond the other two profiles and control variables.

On one hand, Okagaki and Frensch (1998) found that when SES and other parental involvement variables were controlled, a measure of parental expectations was a significant predictor of fourth and fifth graders» grades for European American and Asian American students.

The grouping variable is treated just like any other dyad - level variable and can be used as an outcome, predictor, mediator, or moderator.

To determine whether the significant risk and resistance predictors of changes in metabolic control were independent of each other, we conducted a final analysis in which the control variables were entered along with the four significant psychosocial predictors (bulimic symptoms, depressive symptoms, depressive symptoms × lag, and friend negative relations × lag).