. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 23.

Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2010 May;22(2):453–475. doi: 10.1017/S0954579410000179

Table 3.

BIC and 2log_e(B₁₀) of the models considered

No. of Groups	BIC	Null Model	2log_e(B₁₀)
1	−14586.20
2	−13008.40	1	3155.6
3	−12641.75	2	733.3
4	−12522.83	3	237.8
5	−12461.63	4	122.4
6	−12417.87	5	87.52
7	−12390.26	6	55.22

Note: BIC, Bayesian information criterion; 2log_e(B₁₀), twice the logarithm of the Bayes factor. The null model column represents the number of groups tested in the null hypothesis. Here, 2log_e(B₁₀) ≈ 2(ΔBIC), where ΔBIC is the BIC of the alternative (more complex) model minus the BIC of the null (simpler) model. The log form of the Bayes factor is interpreted as the degree of evidence favoring the alternative model.