. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2015 Apr;19(4):917–925. doi: 10.1007/s10995-014-1593-x

Table 2.

Indices of goodness-of-fit of GMM

No. of latent classes	BIC	Entropy	BLRT
No. of latent classes	BIC	Entropy	Value (df)	p
1	534,594	-	-
2	531,010	0.76	3936.5(33)	<0.001
3	529,483	0.78	2065.7(33)	<0.001
4	528,743	0.50	986.6(33)	<0.001

GMM, growth mixture model; BIC, Bayesian Information Criteria, BLRT, the bootstrap likelihood ratio test