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. 2017 Sep 7;5:237. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00237

Table 2.

Model selection information.

Gender Number of classes G2 Degrees of freedom Parameters AIC BIC Entropy VLMRb p
Females (N = 1,203) 1 2,135.44 1,713 12 15,656.02 15,717.13
2 1,410.70 1,702 25 14,938.61 15,065.92 0.69 <0.0001
3a 1,328.25 1,689 38 14,882.16 15,075.68 0.62 0.0399
4 1,249.03 1,676 51 14,828.94 15,088.66 0.64 0.9997
5 1,195.25 1,663 64 14,801.16 15,127.08 0.67 0.0524
6 1,165.16 1,650 77 14,797.07 15,189.20 0.73 0.3580
7 1,118.58 1,635 90 14,795.58 15,253.91 0.73 1.0000

Males (N = 1,650) 1 2,542.72 1,715 12 22,058.11 22,123.01
2 1,745.66 1,702 25 21,287.05 21,422.26 0.61 <0.0001
3a 1,568.76 1,689 38 21,136.15 21,341.68 0.71 0.0174
4 1,445.77 1,676 51 21,039.15 21,314.99 0.63 0.2576
5 1,350.71 1,663 64 20,970.10 21,316.24 0.64 0.1671
6 1,289.11 1,650 77 20,934.49 21,350.95 0.65 0.9157
7 1,257.38 1,637 90 20,928.77 21,415.54 0.68 0.8643

aSelected model.

bVuong–Lo–Mendell–Rubin likelihood ratio test comparing each model to the model with one fewer classes (54, 55).