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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2011 May;48(2):625–651. doi: 10.1007/s13524-011-0024-5

Table 2. Model fit for one- to seven-class specification of latent class analysis model.

Number of Classes Log-Likelihood Number of Parameters BIC Change in BIC
1 −461,408 35 923,151 –
2 −448,424 66 897,479 −25,672
3 −443,729 97 888,385 −9,094
4 −438,166 128 877,556 −10,829
5 −435,678 159 872,878 −4,678
6 −433,783 190 869,385 −3,493
7 −432,225 221 866,565 −2,820

Note: BIC = Bayesian information criterion.