Research Article

The Association between the Availability of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage in School Vending Machines and Its Consumption among Adolescents in California: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

Table 4

Blockwise t-tests of the Mean Difference of Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption on the Prior Day between the Exposure Group and the Control Group.

BlockMean of control groupMean of exposure groupMean difference (standard error)

[ 0 , 0 . 2 ) 0.321.11−0.79 (0.24)
[ 0 . 2 , 0 . 4 ) 0.871.09−0.22 (0.09)
[ 0 . 4 , 0 . 5 ) 1.161.100.06 (0.14)
[ 0 . 5 , 0 . 6 ) 0.951.25−0.11 (0.14)
[ 0 . 6 , 0 . 6 2 5 ) 0.971.26−0.29 (0.23)
[ 0 . 6 2 5 , 0 . 6 5 ) 0.851.00−0.15 (0.18)
[ 0 . 6 5 , 0 . 7 ) 1.041.18−0.14 (0.18)
[ 0 . 7 , 0 . 8 ) 1.021.21−0.20 (0.09)
[ 0 . 8 , 1 ) 1.00.90.10 (0.64)

N = 3983