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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2013 Mar 9;22(9):10.1007/s11136-013-0380-2. doi: 10.1007/s11136-013-0380-2

Table 2.

Identification of optimal group number

2-group model 3-group model 4-group model 5-group model
BIC* −2188.33 −2147.10 −2129.47 −2133.02
BLRT* n- vs. (n−1)-group model
2×Loglikelihood difference 325.892 97.633 36.045 4.529
Approximate P-Value 0.000 0.0000 0.0000 0.339
LO-MENDELL-RUBIN adjusted LRT* test n- vs. (n−1)-group model
Value 309.972 92.863 43.082 34.284
P 0.0000 0.0579 0.2265 0.6177
*

BIC: Bayesian Information criterion; BLRT: bootstrapped parametric likelihood ratio test; LRT: likelihood ratio test