Table 3

Factors associated with age difference between the individuals and those that were contacted, results of multivariate analysis of most parsimonious model.

a)

variable
level
coefficient
95% Confidence interval
p-value

constant

10.20
(7.56, 12.84)
<0.001

intensity
Physical only
baseline



Conversation only
-1.10
(-3.64, 1.44)


Conversation & physical
-4.73
(-7.32, -2.13)


"Sexual" contact
-7.75
(-11.92, -3.58)
<0.001





b)

variable
Level
coefficient
95% Confidence interval
p-value

constant

1.58
(0.60, 2.55)
0.002

Place of contact
Home
baseline



College
5.28
(3.92, 6.64)


Travel
7.30
(5.22, 9.38)


Shop
13.81
(12.24, 15.38)


Social
2.34
(1.09, 3.59)


Other
5.19
(3.36, 7.03)
<0.001

Note: contact, individual and day of week, were random effects, intensity and place of contact were modelled as fixed effects. Degrees of freedom = 1783 and 1776 for Table 2a and b respectively.

Edmunds et al. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006 3:10   doi:10.1186/1742-7622-3-10