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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2016 Dec 19;50(4):389–397. doi: 10.1002/eat.22651

Table 2.

Model Fit Statistics for Exploratory Factor Analysis, Latent Profile Analysis, and Structural Equation Mixture Models

Profiles P LL BIC aBIC cAIC AIC Entropy
LPA 1c 15 −8132.66 16353.10 16305.52 16368.10 16295.32 --
LPA 2c 25 −7921.73 15989.76 15910.45 16014.76 15893.45 0.94
LPA 3c 35 −7826.97 15858.78 15747.74 15893.78 15723.95 0.94

Factors

FA 1f 24 −8008.23 16156.91 16080.78 16180.91 16064.46 --
FA 2f 32 −7976.15 16139.58 16038.06 16171.58 16016.31 --
FA 3f 39 −7918.81 16065.86 15942.14 16104.86 15915.62 --

SEMMs

1f, 1c 24 −8008.41 16157.27 16081.14 16181.27 16064.82 --
1f, 2c 26 −7904.32 15960.81 15878.32 15986.81 15860.65 0.95
1f, 3c 28 −7836.75 15837.36 15748.53 15865.36 15729.50 0.95
3f, 1c 27 −7926.07 16010.15 15924.50 16037.15 15906.14 --
3f, 2c 31 −7814.14 15809.71 15711.36 15840.71 15690.29 0.95
3f, 3c 35 −7726.11 15657.05 15546.01 15692.05 15522.22 0.96

Note. P=parameters; LL=Log-likelihood; BIC=Bayesian Information Criterion; aBIC=Sample-size adjusted Bayesian Information Criterion, calculated as −2LL + plog [(N+2)/24]; AIC=Akaike Information Criterion; cAIC=consistent Akaike Information Criterion, calculated as −2LL + p[log(N) + 1]. Smaller values of BIC, aBIC, AIC, and cAIC indicate better data-model fit. “--” was used to indicate that these data are not applicable to the model tested. BIC differences ≥ 6 provide strong evidence favoring the model with the smaller value (43). Higher posterior probabilities and entropy suggest better prediction of latent profile membership and clearer delineation of latent profiles, respectively. Although the three factor-three profile mixture model had the best fit to the data, this model was associated with substantial sparseness for the latent profile analysis, such that few participants were classified into LP3 (n=15) due to very extreme scores on latent profile indicators.