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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2012 Sep 8;148(0):391–399. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.06.028

Table 2.

Criteria used to decide on optimal solution for number of latent classes.

Number of classes BIC Adj. BIC BLRT LMR Entropy
1 46378.41 46318.08
2 46143.38 46070.34 261.35*** 251.78*** .69
3 45957.02 45852.23 87.62*** 84.41*** .70
4a 45952.44 45850.83 73.25*** 41.68* .73

Note: Adj. BIC = Sample size adjusted Bayesian Information Criteria. BLRT = Boot-strap likelihood ratio test. LMR = Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test.

**

p < .01.

a

Negative growth factor v**ariance and covariance were constrained to 0 in Classes 2–3.

***

p < .001.