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Table 3 The hierarchical linear model

From: Negative drift of sedation depth in critically ill patients receiving constant minimum alveolar concentration of isoflurane, sevoflurane, or desflurane: a randomized controlled trial

Terms

Estimates

Confidence-intervals

Intercept

42.85*, p < 0.001

39.05 to 45.65

Slope

− 0.72*, p < 0.001

− 1.00 to − 0.44

  1. The hierarchical regression (patient-clustered) is applied to all patients, using 21,208 paired measurements; the R2 is 0.76