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. 2019 Jan 9;14(1):e0207680. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207680

Table 1. Latent class growth analysis procedure and model fit.

Number of latent subgroups 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
AIC* 49727 49137 48957 48838 48787 48745 48722 48712
BIC* 49774 49202 49040 48938 48905 48880 48875 48883
Adjusted BIC* 49749 49167 48995 48885 48841 48807 48793 48790
Entropy 74% 74% 71% 75% 76% 75% 68% 69%
Lo, Mendell, Rubin LRT* 2 vs. 1
1782
P<0.00001
3 vs. 2
572
P<0.00001
4 vs. 3
178
P = 0.0010
5 vs. 4
120
P<0.00001
6 vs. 5
55
P = 0.0118
7 vs. 6
46
P = 0.0169
8 vs. 7
28
P = 0.3039
9 vs. 8
33
P = 0.3255
Bootstrapped LRT* P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001 P<0.00001
N for each class 1:N = 1792 (67%)
2:N = 868 (33%)
1:N = 1105(42%)
2:N = 1292 (48%)
3:N = 263 (10%)
1:N = 1234 (46%)
2:N = 110 (4%)
3:N = 562 (21%)
4:N = 754 (28%)
1:N = 1247 (47%)
2:N = 52 (2%)
3:N = 108 (4%)
4:N = 739 (28%)
5:N = 514 (19%)
1: N = 709 (27%)
2: N = 1208 (45%)
3: N = 116 (4%)
4: N = 42 (2%)
5: N = 528 (20%)
6: N = 57 (2%)
1: N = 667 (25%)
2: N = 526 (20%)
3: N = 39 (1%)
4: N = 47 (2%)
5: N = 145 (5%)
6: N = 73 (3%)
7: N = 1163 (44%)
1: N = 570 (21%)
2: N = 426 (16%)
3: N = 76 (3%)
4: N = 688 (26%)
5: N = 38 (1%)
6: N = 145 (5%)
7: N = 49 (2%)
8: N = 668 (25%)
1: N = 553 (21%)
2: N = 583 (22%)
3: N = 40 (25%)
4: N = 661 (25%)
5: N = 47 (2%)
6: N = 14 (1%)
7: N = 89 (3%)
8: N = 514 (19%)
9: N = 159 (6%)

* Performance measures: AIC: Akaike information criterion; BIC: Bayes information criterion; LRT: Likelihood Ratio Test