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Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2010 Oct;33(5):386–397. doi: 10.1002/nur.20395

Table 2.

Latent Class Solutions and Fit Indices for 2- Through 5-Class Solutions

Model	LL	BIC	VLMR	BLRT	Entropy
2-Class	−2602.43	5398.80	288.45^ns	291.34	.72
3-Class	−2545.47	5384.62	104.18^*	113.92^**	.81
4-Class	−2502.68	5398.79	85.58^*	85.58^**	.84
5-Class	−2468.74	5430.65	67.88^ns	67.88^**	.84

LL, log-likelihood; BIC, Bayesian information criterion; VLMR, the Vuong–Lo–Mendel–Rubin likelihood ratio test; BLRT, parametric bootstrapped likelihood ratio test for the K versus K − 1 model.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.