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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2016 Dec 4;63:151–161. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.030

Table 3.

Comparisons between the different person-centered solutions

Model AIC BIC Entropy LMRT VLMRT
2-Profile 14542.15 14611.96 .94 835.70** −7863.87**
3-Profile 13871.93 13967.1 .94 591.45** −7217.44**
4-Profile 13706.19 13828.36 .91 173.21 −6913.97
5-Profile 13628.86 13777.20 .92 −122.64 −6717.50
6-Profile 13053.03 13227.55 .94 147.52 −6562.21

Note: AIC = Akaike information criterion; BIC = Bayesian information criterion; LMRT = Lo–Mendell–Rubin likelihood ratio test; VLMRT = Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test.

**

p < .01.

The null hypotheses for the LMRT and VLMRT significance values indicate that a solution with the given number of classes provides the same fit to the data as a solution with one less class (i.e., adding an additional profile does not improve the model fit).