Hierarchical structure in the activities of daily living and trajectories of disability prior to death in elderly Chinese individuals

Table 4 Regression coefficients for the individual slopes γ_{1, s} in LIRT

	Mean	SE	Q2.5	Q97.5
Male/Female	0.102	0.001	0.089	0.117
Baseline Age	0.889	0.000	0.883	0.894
Urban/Rural	−0.591	0.003	−0.614	− 0.566
Years of Education	−0.730	0.002	−0.743	− 0.718
Marital Status	0.056	0.003	0.021	0.078

Note: The binary covariates were coded as sex [0: male, 1: female], place of residence [0: urban, 1: rural], marital status [0: with a spouse, 1: without a spouse]. Years of education and baseline age were zero-centered and standardized for model fitting

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