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Published in final edited form as: Int J Public Health. 2016 Jan 5;61(2):199–207. doi: 10.1007/s00038-015-0774-8

Table 3.

Fit indices for the latent profile analysis of e-cigarette and alternative tobacco products use among grade 9 high school students, Tirgu Mures, Romania, 2014

Number of latent classes	AIC	BIC	SSABIC	Entropy	L-M-R test	P value
2 classes	7643.8	7704.4	7669.5	0.749	674.0	p < 0.0001
3 classes	7604.3	7698.1	7644.0	0.770	50.3	p = 0.0461
4 classes	7602.2	7729.0	7656.0	0.708	13.8	p = 0.0362^*
5 classes	7630.8	7790.8	7698.7	0.677	4.94	p = 0.5144

AIC Akaike information criteria, BIC Bayesian information criteria, SSABIC sample-size adjusted Bayesian information criteria, L-M-R test Lo–Mendell–Rubin adjusted likelihood ratio test value, p p value associated with L-M-R test

Statistically significant