Table 2.
Latent profile analysis results for k = 2 and k = 3 class solutions in a joint transition model for Grades 11 and 12.
| Model Comparison Statistics | Classification Quality Indices | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Criteria (IC)1 | Entropy and Entropy Penalty2 | ||||||||||
| Latent Trajectories | AIC | C-AIC (NC-AIC) |
BIC (NBIC) |
D-BIC (ND-BIC) |
HQ (NHQ) |
HT-AIC (N HT-AIC) |
Entropy | NEC | CLC | ICL-BIC | NICL-BIC |
| k = 2 | 57890 |
60002 (58782) |
59618 (58398) |
58912 (57693) |
58560 (58045) |
57952 (68215) |
0.82 | 0.4545 | 57124 | 59619 | 58400 |
| k = 3 | 57602 | 60697 (58910) |
60134 (58347) |
59099 (57312) |
58583 (57828) |
57996 (80003) |
0.81 | 0.4566 | 56477 | 60136 | 58348 |
1
IC indices with N-Adjusted IC indices shown in parentheses;
2
Entropy Penalty indices; Bolded entries indicate the best-fitting k transition class model. AIC= Akaike Information Criterion, C-AIC = Consistent AIC, BIC = Bayesian Information Criterion, D-BIC = Draper’s modified BIC, HQ = Hannan-Quinn Information Criterion, HT-AIC = Hurvich-Tsai AIC.
2
NEC = Normalized Entropy Criterion, CLC = Classification Likelihood Criterion, ICL = Integrated Completed Likelihood.