Table 1.

Hypothetical output (Latent Gold) showing subgroup sizes, conditional probabilities and means for different variable types

Subgroup descriptors	Subgroup 1	Subgroup 2
Subgroup size	60%	40%
Variables
Sex (nominal variable)
Female, probability	0.3	0.9
Male, probability	0.7	0.1
Previous episodes of low back pain (ordinal variable, 0–2)
0 episodes, probability	0.16	0.03
1–3 episodes, probability	0.36	0.20
>3 episodes, probability	0.48	0.77
Mean score	1.3	1.7
Pain intensity (continuous variable, 0–10)
Mean score	7.5	3.8