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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Appl Stat Sci. 2010 Oct;3(2):203–235.

Table 2.

Model Fit Information for LCA Models Fit to Data from Time 1 and Time 2, and for LTA Models

Time 1 LCA
Classes df AIC BIC CAIC a-BIC Entropy R2 G2 Solution %
1 152 327.1 363.2 372.2 334.6 1.00 309.1 100.0
2 142 208.7 284.9 303.9 224.7 0.63 170.7 100.0
3 132 194.6 311.0 340.0 219.0 0.65 136.6 91.8
4 122 195.2 351.8 390.8 228.0 0.87 117.2 13.9
Time 2 LCA
Classes df AIC BIC CAIC a-BIC Entropy R2 G2 Solution %
1 152 310.8 346.7 355.7 318.1 1.00 292.8 100.0
2 142 177.2 252.9 271.9 192.6 0.65 139.2 100.0
3 132 170.4 285.9 314.9 193.9 0.73 112.4 63.1
4 122 174.2 329.5 368.5 205.8 0.76 96.2 14.7
Time 1 to Time 2 LTA
Classes df AIC BIC CAIC a-BIC Entropy R2 G2 Solution %
2 26222 1594.4 1681.0 1702.0 1614.3 — 1552.4 100.0
3 26208 1440.9 1585.2 1620.2 1474.1 — 1370.9 10.0
4 26192 1358.4 1568.8 1619.8 1406.9 — 1256.4 25.0
5 26174 1317.3 1601.9 1670.9 1382.9 — 1179.3 11.0

Note: Solution % is the percentage of times the solution was selected out of 1000 random sets of starting values for LCA models, and out of 100 random sets for LTA models. Dashes indicate that the criterion was not calculated for the model.