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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Jan 31;50(1):28–37. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.12.011

Table 1.

Latent Class Fit Indices for Two- Through Five-Class Solutions

Model Unconditional Model Model with Covariates
LL BIC Entropy LL BIC Entropy
2 Class −4590.08 9352.65 .80 −4454.23 9105.81 .80
3 Class −4469.58 9201.09 .78 −4325.71 8963.38 .79
4 Classa −4400.73 9152.83 .77 −4230.63 8887.82 .78
5 Class −4361.80 9164.40 .80 −4176.03 8893.21 .80
a

The four-class solution was selected because the BIC was lower than in both the 3- and 5-class solutions. This difference was consistent when including four covariates in the model.

Abbreviations: BIC= Bayesian Information Criterion; LL = log-likelihood