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. 2012 Oct 9;4(10):1382–1398. doi: 10.3390/nu4101382

Table 2.

Growth mixture model fit statistics for 1 to 5 classes.

Sex Number of classes Parameters AIC 1 BIC 2 aBIC 3 Entropy LMR 4 P-Value
Males 1 20 10566 10631 10567 - -
2 37 9620 9740 9622 0.92 0.057
3 54 9318 9492 9321 0.83 0.137
4 71 9164 9394 9169 0.87 0.126
5 88 9021 9305 9026 0.85 0.707
Females 1 20 9793 9857 9794 - -
2 37 9112 9231 9114 0.86 <0.001
3 54 8976 9149 8978 0.85 0.442
4 71 8892 9120 8895 0.81 0.353
5 88 8830 9112 8834 0.79 0.731

1 Akaike’s Information Criterion; 2 Bayesian Information Criterion; 3 Sample size adjusted BIC; 4 Lo, Mendell and Rubin likelihood ratio test.