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Published in final edited form as: J Youth Adolesc. 2009 Jun 9;39(6):620–633. doi: 10.1007/s10964-009-9423-y

Table 2.

Characteristics of the four classes and between class significance tests (n = 3,030)

LCA indicator	Classes								Omnibus, χ² (df = 3)
	Dense male (n = 808)		Dense female (n = 177)		Popular (n = 228)		Average (n = 1,818)
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Network size	4.94_a	1.95	4.21_a	1.83	18.00_a	3.53	9.53_a	2.93	11644.24^***
Network density	0.40_a	0.16	0.45_a	0.16	0.18_a	0.05	0.25_a	0.09	4390.36^***
Friends’ delinquency	2.18_a,b	0.66	1.99_a	0.60	1.94_b	0.31	2.05_b	0.45	262.66^***
Proportion of female friends	0.08_a	0.13	0.87_a	0.16	0.58_a	0.13	0.47_a	0.15	17325.41^***

Means/percentages in a row that share the same subscripts differ at least at p < .008 (Bonferroni-corrected: .05 divided by 6)

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p < .001