Effects of autism spectrum disorders on outcome in teenage-onset anorexia nervosa evaluated by the Morgan-Russell outcome assessment schedule: a controlled community-based study

Table 3 Morgan-Russell subscale E2 (emancipation from family);comparisons between AN and COMP group at 6-, 10- and 18-year follow-up

Follow-up	AN group				COMP group				Singly ordered r × c contingency tables Kruskal-Wallis test	Exact Monte Carlo
	Response category				Response category				Test statistic	P (99% CI)
	0	4	8	12	0	4	8	12
6 year	3	9	9	30	0	2	11	38	4.492	0.032 (0.027 to 0.036)
10 year	2	5	9	35	0	1	12	38	0.948	0.34 (0.33 to 0.35)
18 year	2	3	9	37	0	0	4	47	7.158	0.007 (0.005 to 0.009)
Analysis for time trend doubly ordered r × c contingency tables	Linear-by-linear association test				Linear-by-linear association test				Stratified r × c contingency tables Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test
Test statistic	+1.715				+2.378				15.8
Exact Monte Carlo P	0.097				0.022				0
99% CI	0.09 to 0.104				0.018 to 0.025				0 to 0.0005

AN anorexia nervosa, COMP comparison, CI confidence interval, r × c rows and columns.

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