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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011 Oct 24;122(3):220–227. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.10.001

Table 2.

Fit statistics and entropy for a latent class analysis of 8 substances used in the past month among 552 users of cocaine and heroin in the past 6 months.

Classes LLa parameters BICb LMRc BLRTd Entropy s.c. r.f. (f)e
1 −2685.88 8 5422.27 NAf NAf NAf NAf
2 −2486.57 17 5080.47 p < .001 p < 0.001 0.769 .49 (268.2)
3 −2432.89 26 5029.94 p = .002 p < 0.001 0.742 .22 (120.1)
4 −2417.04 35 5055.06 p = .028 p < 0.001 0.744 .13 (70.3)
5 −2402.25 44 5082.29 p = .147 p < 0.001 0.784 .08 (44.1)
6 −2395.05 53 5124.71 p = .591 p = 0.600 0.796 .05 (26.4)
a

Log Likelihood;

b

Bayesian Information Criteria;

c

Lo-Mendell-Rubin adjusted likelihood ratio test;

d

parametric Bootstrap Likelihood Ratio Test;

e

smallest class relative frequency (frequency);

f

Not Applicable

Ideal number of classes based on fit statistic shown in bold.