Table 4. The results of Scenario B2.

Percentage of data sets in which the true number of clusters was found, with the mode of the estimated number of classes in parentheses.

α	${\text{R\&M}}_0^{\text{NI}}$	${\text{R\&M}}_{0.01}^{\text{NI}}$	${\text{R\&M}}_{0.02}^{\text{NI}}$	${\text{R\&M}}_{0.05}^{\text{NI}}$
0.00001	4%(1)	4%(1)	4%(1)	4%(1)
0.001	4%(2)	4%(2)	4%(2)	4%(2)
0.01	18%(2)	18%(2)	18%(2)	18%(2)
0.05	48%(2)	48%(2)	48%(2)	48%(2)
0.1	74%(3)	74%(3)	74%(3)	74%(3)
0.3	90%(3)	90%(3)	90%(3)	90%(3)
0.5	96%(3)	98%(3)	98%(3)	100%(3)
0.9	8%(4)	14%(4)	20%(4)	34%(4)

The success rate of BIC using a frequentist approach was 98(3)%.