Research Article

Predicting Early Bulbar Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Speech Subsystem Approach

Table 2

Fixed effects and values for the LME models of the four subsystems (respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, and resonatory).

LME modelFixed effect
InterceptSubsystem predictorTime effect

Respiratory202.96 −0.14 PCresp1 − 1.7 PCresp2−0.019 time0.87
Phonatory155.30.0072 PCphon1−0.032 time0.90
Articulatory115.13−0.079 PCart1 + 0.08 PCart2 + 0.2 PCart3−0.036 time0.89
Resonatory158.8−0.067 PCreso1 − 0.12 PCreso2−0.028 time0.86