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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2013 Feb 25;27(4):1110–1121. doi: 10.1037/a0031173

Table 2.

Comparison of Latent Transition Models, ages 13–17 (5 time points)

Black Girls (n=611)1
Number of classes Likelihood-Ratio G2 Degrees of Freedom AIC BIC
2 1641.04 32,752 1671.04 1737.26
3 1501.27 32,732 1571.27 1725.79
4 1398.75 32,704 1524.75 1804.90
5 no convergence -- -- --
White Girls (n=465)1
Number of classes Likelihood-Ratio G2 Degrees of Freedom AIC BIC
2 1246.98 32,752 1276.98 1339.11
3 985.42 32,732 1055.42 1200.39
4 883.74 32,704 1009.74 1270.68
5 814.54 32,668 1012.54 1422.60

Notes:

1

Item-response probabilities are invariant across time. Bolded values indicate best fitting model according to a certain index of model fit

AIC=Akaike Information Criterion, BIC=Bayesian Information Criterion