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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2012 Sep 2;36(9):633–644. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.07.001

Table 4.

Model Fit Indices for Maltreatment Subtype Severity Latent Class Solutions.

Model AIC adjBIC Entropy BLRT Classes: n, %
1 class 3349 3361 n/a n/a 1: n = 332, 100%
2 class 2878 2903 0.69 61.45, p < .001 1: n = 284, 75%
2: n = 84, 25%
3 class 2866 2903 0.72 52.34, p < .001 1: n = 157, 47%
2: n = 135, 41%
3: n = 40, 12%
4 class 2858 2907 0.80 48.15, p < .001 1: n = 154, 47%
2: n = 109, 33%
3: n = 41, 12%
4: n = 28, 8%
5 class 2870 2933 0.81 26.99, p = .43 1: n = 160, 48%
2: n = 76, 23%
3: n = 38, 11%
4: n = 34, 10%
5: n = 24, 7%

AIC = Akaike Information Criterion, adjBIC = Sample size adjusted Bayesian Information Criterion; BLRT = Bootstrapped Likelihood Ratio Test.

Note: Lower BIC and AIC values indicate better fit. Entropy should be greater than 0.7. Values closer to 1 are better.