Table 3.

Comparison of strategies in the psychology domain

Subgroup descriptors	Summary-score strategy	Single-item strategy
Variables, n	8	26
Identified subgroups, n	6	8
Subgroup-size range, n (%)	33–336 (4%–36%)	48–199 (5%–21%)
Posterior probability, median (interquartile range)	0.95 (0.82–0.99)	0.97 (0.88–1)
Subjects with posterior probability above 0.33 for more than one subgroup, n (%)	93 (10%)	59 (6%) +3 (<1%) with no posterior probability >0.33
Subgroups’ median posterior probability, mean (range)	0.91 (0.83–1.00)	0.97 (0.95–0.99)
Subjects with posterior probability less than 0.7 on average per subgroup, n (%),range	144 (18%) 6–43 (4%–27%)	12 (11%) 4–20 (7%–19%)
Identified features*, n	5	6
Crossing subgroups#, % (n)	80 (12 of 15)	86 (24 of 28)

Notes:

^*Distinct characteristic defined by a single variable or a group of variables;

^#count of subgroups that crossed in the profile plots (subgroup-by-subgroup matrix).