Table 2. Goodness of fit statistics for gender-specific LCA models with different number of latent classes.
| Males | Females | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 class | 3 class | 4 class | 5 class | 2 class | 3 class | 4 class | 5 class | |
| AIC | 38,015.0 | 37,804.0 | 37,622.8 | 37,500.0 | 19,725.4 | 19,560.4 | 19,399.6 | 19,347.1 |
| BIC | 38,206.8 | 38,094.8 | 38,012.6 | 37,988.7 | 19,901.2 | 19,826.8 | 19,756.8 | 19,795.0 |
| ABIC | 38,108.3 | 37,945.4 | 37,812.4 | 37,737.7 | 19,802.7 | 19,677.5 | 19,556.6 | 19,544.0 |
| Entropy | 0.884 | 0.648 | 0.686 | 0.882 | 0.888 | 0.721 | 0.851 | 0.831 |
| LMR | <0.001 | 0.026 | 0.113 | 0.143 | <0.001 | 0.075 | <0.001 | 0.093 |
Notes.
- LCA
- latent class analysis
- AIC
- Akaike information criterion
- BIC
- Bayesian information criterion
- ABIC
- adjusted Bayesian information criterion
- LMR
- Lo-Mendell-Rubin likelihood ratio test