Table 2.
Number of Classes | Growth Structure | AIC | BIC | p-Value LMR-LRT | Entropy | n (%) of smallest class2 | Linear | 43178.7 | 43321.0 | <0.0001 | 0.943 | 217 (18.2%) |
Quadratic | 43181.7 | 43369.8 | <0.0001 | 0.946 | 219 (18.4%) | |||||||
3 | Linear | 42868.6 | 43041.5 | 0.0081 | 0.912 | 162 (13.6%) | ||||||
Quadratic | 42802.1 | 43030.8 | 0.0329 | 0.917 | 162 (13.6%) | |||||||
4 | Linear | 42794.9 | 42977.9 | 0.3796 | 0.928 | 79 (6.6%) | ||||||
Quadratic | 42495.6 | 42765.1 | 0.0819 | 0.944 | 64 (5.4%) |
AIC, Akaike Information Criteria; BIC, Bayesian Information Criteria; LMR-LRL, Lo-Mendell-Rubin - Likelihood Ratio Test.