Table 2.
Performance of latent class analysis (LCA) models with one to five classes.
| Classes | AIC | BIC | aBIC | Entropy | LMR | BLRT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4328.934 | 4375.229 | 4337.161 | / | / | / |
| 2 | 4057.463 | 4153.911 | 4074.602 | 0.732 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| 3 | 3982.507 | 4129.108 | 4008.559 | 0.756 | 0.0184 | 0.0000 |
| 4 | 4162.865 | 4162.865 | 4001.075 | 0.787 | 1 | 0.0000 |
| 5 | 3965.944 | 4212.851 | 4009.821 | 0.796 | 1 | 0.3333 |
AIC, Akaike information criteria; BIC, Bayesian information criteria; aBIC, Sample-size adjusted BIC; LMR, p value for the Lo–Mendell–Rubin; and BLRT, p value for the bootstrapped likelihood ratio tests.