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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2009 May;45(3):652–676. doi: 10.1037/a0014851

Table 1.

Fit Statistics for All Models

Statistic 1 Class 2 Classes 3 Classes 4 Classes 5 Classes 6 Classes 7 Classes
HGLM

  LL −1676.73
  # Parameters 11
  BIC 3420.69
GMM: Int, Lin, Quadratica

  LL −1678.06 −1676.73b
  # Parameters 12 16
  Entropy .27
  BIC 3429.46
  BLRT (p) 26.49 (.01)
  LMR (p) 27.58 (< .01)
GMM: Int, Lineara

  LL −1678.34 −1670.10b
  # Parameters 11 15
  Entropy .29
  BIC 3423.90
  BLRT (p) 29.09 (< .01)
  LMR (p) 27.95 (.15)
GMM: Intercepta

  LL −1697.05 −1683.17 −1673.79 −1665.69b
  # Parameters 10 14 18 22
  Entropy .34 .38 .52
  BIC 3455.21 3451.91 3457.59
  BLRT (p) 44.65 (< .01) 27.45 (< .01) 18.76 (< .01)
  LMR (p) 42.89 (.04) 26.66 (.06) 18.03 (.14)
LCGA

  LL −1737.51 −1704.75 −1692.11 −1682.26 −1673.20 −1661.50
  # Parameters 9 13 17 21 25 29
  Entropy .75 .69 .67 .68 .69 .72
  BIC 3530.02 3488.94 3488.11 3492.85 3499.19 3500.23
  BLRT (p) 437.63 (< .01) 65.52 (< .01) 25.28 (< .01) 19.71 (< .01) 18.11 (< .01) 23.41 (< .01)
  LMR (p) 420.43 (< .01) 62.95 (< .01) 24.28 (.01) 18.93 (.12) 17.39 (.54) 22.49 (.01)
LLCA

  LL −1702.59 −1671.25 −1652.50 −1639.53 −1627.09 −1617.49c
  # Parameters 31 47 63 79 95 111
  Entropy .81 .73 .79 .86 .79
  BIC 3594.64 3629.74 3690.02 3761.87 3834.76
  BLRT 481.94 (< .01) 62.68 (< .01) 37.50 (< .01) 25.94 (.31) 24.89 (.27)
  LMR 477.06 (< .01) 62.05 (.95) 37.12 (.23) 25.67 (1.00) 24.64 (1.00)

Note. All models estimated with intercept, and linear and quadratic slopes. GMM = generalized linear growth mixture model, LCGA = generalized linear latent class growth analysis (all variances and covariances estimated), LLCA = longitudinal latent class analysis, BIC = Bayesian information criterion, BLRT = bootstrapped likelihood ratio test, LMR = Lo-Mendel-Rubin test. Underlined values indicate the best of a set of models for that statistic.

a

Variances that were estimated; all covariances constrained to zero

b

Singular information matrix

c

No repeated loglikelihood