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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2014 Dec;15(6):897–906. doi: 10.1007/s11121-013-0449-8

Table 2.

Fit statistic comparisons of latent class analysis models of school victimization and substance use models with covariates

Model Description School victimization
Substance use
Adjusted BIC LMR-LRT p value Entropy Adjusted BIC LMR-LRT p value Entropy
1 One-class (no covariates) 8,180,146.022 5,323,905.862 0.0000
2 Two-class 4,855,872.593 0.0000 0.724 2,055,183.168 0.0008 0.800
4 Three-class 4,787,458.892 0.0000 0.685 2,009,106.900 0.0000 0.756
6 Four-class 4,751,154.994 0.0000 0.658 2,002,007.651 0.0000 0.738
8 Five-class 4,734,122.149 0.0021 0.643 1,992,189.895 0.7602 0.712

BIC Bayesian Information Criterion. LMR-LRT Lo-Mendell-Rubin Likelihood Ratio Test p value for (K-1)-classes

A significant p value indicates that the (K-1)-class model should be rejected in favor of a model with at least K-classes

Best fitting models identified in italics