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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Struct Equ Modeling. 2009 Oct 1;16(4):602–624. doi: 10.1080/10705510903203516

TABLE 9.

Model Selection by BIC and BLRT: Percentage of Times the Lowest Value of BIC and Percentage of Times of a Nonsignificant p Value Selected for BLRT

Data 1
Data 2
Data 3
BIC BLRT BIC BLRT BIC BLRT
Step 1: Dichotomous part
 1fu_1c 0 0 0 0 0 0
 1fu_2c 78 76 100 92 100 94
 1fu_3c 22 24 0 8 0 6
Step 2: Continuous part
 1fy_1c 100 26 100 5 0 0
 1fy_2c 0 57 0 56 100 66
 1fy_3c 0 17 0 39 0 34
Step 3: Joint part
 1fu_1c 3 1fy_1c 0 0 0
 1fu_2c 3 1fu_2c 0 100 100
 1fu_3c 3 1fy_3c 100 0 0

Note. Bolded rows represent the true k-class model for the given model. BIC = Bayesian Information Criterion; BLRT = Bootstrapped Likelihood Ratio Test.