Table 5.
Model Fit For Pain Intensity And Pain Unpleasantness Trajectories
| Number Of Trajectories | Linear | Linear And Quadratic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain intensity | AIC | BIC | AIC | BIC |
| 1 | 3998.17 | 4008.84 | 3990.20 | 4004.43 |
| 2 | 3958.62 | 3979.96 | 3948.57 | 3977.03a |
| 3 | 3950.66 | 3982.67 | 3938.01 | 3980.69 |
| 4 | 3947.34 | 3990.02 | 3932.06 | 3988.96 |
| 5 | 3953.34 | 4006.69 | 3940.06 | 4011.19 |
| 6 | 3958.14 | 4022.17 | 3942.90 | 4028.36 |
| 7 | 3964.14 | 4038.84 | 3949.68 | 4049.27 |
| Pain Unpleasantness | ||||
| 1 | 3710.42 | 3721.09 | 3671.26 | 3685.49 |
| 2 | 3666.27 | 3687.61 | 3615.99 | 3644.45a |
| 3 | 3670.40 | 3702.41 | 3614.01 | 3656.69 |
| 4 | 3669.37 | 3712.05 | 3604.52 | 3661.42 |
| 5 | 3675.37 | 3728.72 | 3612.52 | 3683.65 |
| 6 | 3681.37 | 3745.39 | 3620.52 | 3705.88 |
| 7 | 3687.37 | 3762.06 | 3628.52 | 3728.11 |
Note: aModel with the best fit to the data that respected all criteria (lower AIC and BIC values, smallest class with n > 5%, parsimony and theoretical soundness).
Abbreviations: AIC, Akaike information criterion; BIC, Bayesian information criterion.