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. 2008 Sep;69(5):738–746. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2008.69.738

Table 1.

Latent class analysis fit statistics

Models Free parameters BIC Difference in BIC between models Entropy Estimated group sizesa
1 class 8 1,074.48 1.00 100
2 class 17 1,048.52 -25.96 0.94 11, 89
3 class 26 1,054.03 5.51 0.97 11, 21, 68
4 class 35 1,075.12 21.09 0.96 9, 11, 14, 66
5 class 44 1,105.94 30.82 0.97 6, 9, 9, 18, 58

Notes: Bold = optimal model. BIC = Bayesian Information Criteria.

a

Group sizes are presented as percentage of total sample.