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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2013 Sep 5;17(6):10.1016/j.ejon.2013.06.002. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2013.06.002

Table 1.

Fit Indices for morning and evening growth mixture model solutions over seven assessments, with dyad as a clustering variable.

GMM LL AIC BIC Entropy VLMRc
Morning Fatigue
1-Classa −2729.675 5491.349 5547.820 n/a n/a
2-Class −2667.797 5377.594 5451.712 0.775 123.755n.s.
3-Classb −2641.862 5335.724 5427.489 0.811 51.870**
4-Class −2629.867 5321.734 5431.146 0.843 23.990n.s.
Evening Fatigue
1-Classd −2837.094 5706.188 5762.659 n/a n/a
2-Class −2808.314 5662.627 5743.804 0.662 57.561**
3-Classe −2793.976 5643.951 5742.775 0.716 28.116*
4-Class −2779.614 5627.227 5747.228 0.731 31.791n.s.
*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

n.s.

p > .05.

Abbreviations: AIC = Akaike Information Criteria; BIC = Bayesian Information Criterion; CFI = comparative fit index; GMM = Growth mixture model; LL = log likelihood; n/a = not applicable; n.s. = not significant; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation; VLMR = Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test.

a

Random coefficients latent growth curve model with linear and quadratic components; Chi2 = 60.528, 26 df, p = .0001, CFI = 0.962, RMSEA = 0.073.

b

3-class model was selected, based on its having the smallest BIC and a significant VLMR. Further, the VLMR is not significant for the 4-class model, and the 4-class model estimated a class with only 1.5% of the sample – a class size that is unlikely to be reliable.

c

This number is the Chi2 statistic for the VLMR for morning and evening fatigue. When significant, the VLMR test provides evidence that the K-class model fits the data better than the K-1-class model.

d

Random coefficients latent growth curve model with linear and quadratic components; Chi2 = 78.126, 26 df, p < .00005, CFI = 0.965, RMSEA = 0.089.

e

3-class model was selected, based on its having the smallest BIC and a significant VLMR. Further, the VLMR is not significant for the 4-class model.