ABSTRACT
A series of smaller “supplementary” analyses was performed. These additional analyses included the testing of hypotheses generated by the earlier data or suggested by questions received following presentations of preliminary results. This chapter reports the results of these analyses. Several additional analyses are anticipated within the large NINCDS Collaborative Perinatal Project data base. Because some of the measures were correlated, multivariate discriminant analyses were performed to assess the relative importance of their associations with minimal brain dysfunction symptoms. Sex and race differences in the importance of specific antecedent variables were investigated by performing the all-epoch discriminant analyses separately for each race-sex group. The association held up in the multivariate analysis for whites, but for blacks became insignificant after antecedents related to socioeconomic status were controlled. Race of child was, however, one of the last variables to enter the stepwise all-epoch analysis.
