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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2009 Dec;10(4):376–386. doi: 10.1007/s11121-009-0140-2

Table 1.

Criteria to assess model fit for gender-specific LCA models

Females Males


2 class 3 class 4 class 5 class 2 class 3 class 4 class 5 class
AIC 788.6 727.2 701.7 710.5 704.2 675.8 669.6 659.2
BIC 896.6 891.6 922.7 988.0 801.6 824.2 868.9 909.5
BIC* 829.9 750.3 706.8 697.6 734.9 687.9 663.2 634.2
CAIC 917.6 842.2 802.9 797.8 822.6 779.8 759.2 734.4
G2 746.6 663.2 615.7 602.5 662.2 611.8 583.6 551.2
DF 1002 991 980 969 1002 991 980 969

AIC Akaike Information Criterion, BIC Bayesian Information Criterion, BIC* Bayesian Information Criterion using sample size adjustment, CAIC Consisent AIC (Yang 2006)