Sentence examples for controlling for the initial level from inspiring English sources
Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that parental psychological aggression, preschoolers' altruism and preschoolers' forgiveness at Time 1 significantly predicted preschoolers' anxiety at Time 2, when controlling for the initial level of preschoolers' anxiety and important demographic variables that co-vary with preschoolers' anxiety.
At the same time, after controlling for the initial level of remittance income and hours worked, the marginal impact of a remitted boliviano on the number of hours worked is larger in rural areas than urban areas.
Previous substance consumption, but also SOC, predicted tobacco use at age 24; hence SOC was not only associated with reduced smoking habits at age 15, higher SOC at age 15 was also associated with lower the risk of smoking at age 24, even controlling for the initial level of substance use at age 15.
Initial results show that extended participation in research for more than a single semester is correlated with an increase in GPA, even after using SAT to control for the initial ability level of the students.
A regression of the change in redistribution on the change in union density controlling for the initial level of redistribution, or catch up, and inequality-induced redistribution captured by the change in the Gini coefficient for market income yields a positive and statistically significant effect of unionism for the sample period 1980 1995.
We controlled for the initial scores because we expected the inpatient group to report greater symptoms at the initial session.
All results were obtained while controlling for initial levels of the outcomes.
Longitudinal paths thus represent semi-partial regression weights and denote the predictive power of personality, essentially controlling for initial levels of substance use.
There is evidence that patients' beliefs that they have control over their recovery predicts the amount of motor recovery achieved, controlling for initial levels of cognitive and motor impairment (Partridge and Johnston, 1989; Johnston et al., 1999; Bonetti et al., 2008) and is predictive up to 3 years following stroke (Johnston et al., 2004).
This was followed by a model which investigated the unadjusted effect of changing SES on BMI, controlling for initial levels of SES (Model 2).
