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Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2019 Oct;23(10):2803–2815. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02630-5

Table III.

Comparison of One-to Six-Profile Solutions of Latent Profiles of HIV-Related Behavioral Protective and Risk Factors for Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (N = 1,808)

Index 1 Profile 2 Profiles 3 Profiles 4 Profiles 5 Profiles 6 Profiles
AIC 66,010.84 63,572.34 ( =2,438.50) 62,959.22 ( =613.12) 62,583.14 ( =376.08) 62,270.80 ( =312.34) 62,053.37 ( =217.43)
BIC 66,076.84 63,676.84 ( =2,400.00) 63,102.22 ( =574.62) 62,764.64 ( =337.58) 62,490.80 ( =273.84) 62,311.87 ( =178.93)
Adjusted BIC 66,038.71 63,616.48 ( =2,422.23) 63,019.62 ( =596.86) 62,659.80 ( =359.82) 62,363.72 ( =296.08) 62,162.55 ( =201.17)
Entropy N/A 0.863 0.882 0.821 0.836 0.845
Lo, Mendell, Rubin test (p) N/A 2406.65, p<0.001 615.40, p=0.004 382.08, p=0.003 320.24, p=0.116 227.105, p=0.122
Vuong, Lo, Mendell, Rubin test (p) N/A 2452.50, p<0.001 627.12, p=0.003 390.08, p=0.003 326.34, p=0.111 231.43, p=0.118
n for each profile (Pi) in each solution model P = 1,808 P1 = 1,264 P2 = 544 P1 = 574 P2 = 1,150 P3 = 84 P1 = 332 P2 = 488 P3 = 88 P4 = 900 P1 = 95 P2 = 851 P3=71 P4 = 439 P5 = 352 P1 = 87 P2 = 766 P3 = 421 P4 = 420 P5 = 78 P6 = 36

Notes. A four-profile solution was selected as the best fitting, most parsimonious solution.