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Table 7 Ordered probit regression in suspicion of a confounding variable

From: Interferon-alpha 2 but not Interferon-gamma serum levels are associated with intramuscular fat in obese patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

 

Coeff.

Std. err.

z

P > |z|

[95% Conf. interval]

d.v.: IMTG scores

 i.v.: HS grade

0.6427975

0.215061

2.99

0.003

0.2212858 to 1.064309

d.v.: HS grade

 i.v.: VAT

0.8153024

0.1584942

5.14

0.000

0.5046595 to 1.125945

  1. In these two regressions there is a suspicion of a confounding variable or covariate that is VAT
  2. d.v. dependent variable, i.v. independent variable