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. 2023 Aug 8;42:78. doi: 10.1186/s41043-023-00425-y

Table 5.

Parameter estimates of 2‑group latent basis growth mixture model

Group 1 Group 2
Estimate SE CR p Estimate SE CR p
Latent variable means
 Intercept mean αμ 72.632 0.143 508.509 *** 72.745 0.266 273.412 ***
 Slope βμ 6.274 0.015 412.753 *** 5.919 0.025 234.251 ***
Time-invariant covariate
 Intercept < –- Gender (Female)  − 2.12 0.144  − 14.71 ***  − 1.661 0.248  − 6.695 ***
 Slope < –- Gender (Female)  − 0.178 0.015  − 11.481 ***  − 0.071 0.024  − 3.023 0.003
Country < –- Ethiopia (Reference group)
 Intercept < –- India 0.01 0.181 0.057 0.954 1.286 0.295 4.359 ***
 Intercept < –- Peru  − 0.61 0.189  − 3.237 0.001 0.723 0.284 2.547 0.011
 Intercept < –- Vietnam  − 0.216 0.184  − 1.171 0.241 1.128 0.278 4.059 ***
 Slope < –- India  − 0.146 0.019  − 7.537 ***  − 0.117 0.028  − 4.168 ***
 Slope < –- Peru 0.043 0.02 2.109 0.035 0.07 0.027 2.582 0.01
 Slope < –- Vietnam 0.092 0.02 4.631 *** 0.171 0.026 6.494 ***
Latent variance–covariance
 Intercept variance 11.934 0.435 27.427 *** 14.232 0.699 20.368 ***
 Slope variance 0.136 0.005 27.699 *** 0.127 0.006 21.32 ***
 Intercept < –- Slope  − 0.045 0.036  − 1.267 0.205  − 0.184 0.052  − 3.541 ***
Slope factor loadings
 Time 1 0 (fixed) 0 (fixed)
 Time 2 5.189 0.009 590.018 *** 5.765 0.013 440.033 ***
 Time 3 7.718 0.009 895.078 *** 8.543 0.013 633.347 ***
 Time 4 11.032 0.009 1217.075 *** 12.759 0.012 1032.696 ***
 Time 5 14 (fixed) 14 (fixed)

***p < 0.0001